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With Operation Popeye, the U.S. government made weather an instrument of war
As geo-engineering projects soar, the declassified project is newly relevant.
https://www.popsci.com/operation-popeye-government-weather-vietnam-war/
Despite 80 years of cloud seeding efforts, rigorous research aimed at proving (or disproving) its efficacy is still underway. During their top secret briefing on Popeye, Senators Pell and Case were told that though U.S. taxpayers paid, without their knowledge, some $3.6 million a year for such operations over ...
Popular Science · With Operation Popeye, the U.S. government made weather an instrument of warOperation Popeye was a secret Vietnam War-era effort to conduct covert cloud seeding over Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, extend the monsoon season, and give the United States an advantage in the war.
Vietnam (or about $23 million a year in today’s dollars), Popeye’s success was “certainly limited” and also fundamentally “unverifiable.”