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Background on the HAARP Project
By Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., GNSH, November 5, 1996
Table of Contents:
Project Argus (1958)Project Starfish (1962)
SPS: Solar Power Satellite Project (1968)
Saturn V Rocket (1975)
SPS Military Implications (1978)
Orbit Maneuvering System (1981)
Innovative Shuttle Experiments (1985)
Mighty Oaks (1986)
Desert Storm (1991)
High Frequency Active Auroral Research
Program HAARP (1993)
Poker Flat Rocket Launch (1968 to Present)
Conclusions
References
Military interest in space became intense during and after World War II because of the introduction of rocket science, the companion to nuclear technology. The early versions include the buzz bomb and guided missiles. They were thought of as potential carriers of both nuclear and conventional bombs. Rocket technology and nuclear weapon technology developed simultaneously between 1945 and 1963. During this time of intensive atmospheric nuclear testing, explosions at various levels above and below the surface of the earth were tried. Some of the now familiar descriptions of the earth's protective atmosphere, such as the existence of the Van Allen belts, were based on information gained through stratospheric and ionospheric experimentation. The earth's atmosphere consists of the troposphere, from sea level to about 16 km above the earth's surface; the stratosphere (which contains the ozone level) which extends from about the 16 to 48 km above the earth; and the ionosphere which extends from 48 km to over 50,000 km above the surface of the earth.
Project Argus (1958)
Between August and September 1958, the US Navy exploded three fission type nuclear bombs 480 km above the South Atlantic Ocean, in the part of the lower Van Allen Belt closest to the earth's surface. In addition, two hydrogen bombs were detonated 160 km over Johnston Island in the Pacific. This was called, by the military, "the biggest scientific experiment ever undertaken". It was designed by the US Department of Defence and the US Atomic Energy Commission, under the code name Project Argus. The purpose appears to be to assess the impact of high altitude nuclear explosions on radio transmission and radar operations because of the electro-magnetic pulse (EMP), and to increase understanding of the geomagnetic field and the behaviour of the charged particles in it. [1]Project Starfish (1962)
On 9 July 1962, the US began a further series of experiments with the ionosphere. From their description: "one kiloton device, at a height of 60 km and one megaton and one multi-megaton, at several hundred kilometres height" (K.H.A., 29 June 1962). These tests seriously disturbed the lower Van Allen Belt, substantially altering its shape and intensity. "In this experiment the inner Van Allen Belt will be practically destroyed for a period of time; particles from the Belt will be transported to the atmosphere. It is anticipated that the earth's magnetic field will be disturbed over long distances for several hours, preventing radio communication. The explosion in the inner radiation belt will create an artificial dome of polar light that will be visible from Los Angeles."(K.H.A. 11 May 1962). A Fijian Sailor, present at this nuclear explosion told me that the whole sky was on fire and he thought it would be the end of the world. This was the experiment which called forth the strong protest of the Queen's Astronomer, Sir Martin Ryle in the UK. "The ionosphere (according to the understanding at that time) that part of the atmosphere between 65 and 80 km and 280-320 km height, will be disrupted by mechanical forces caused by the pressure wave following the explosion. At the same time, large quantities of ionizing radiation will be released, further ionizing the gaseous components of the atmosphere at this height. This ionization effect is strengthened by the radiation from the fission products. . . . The lower Van Allen Belt, consisting of charged particles that move along the geomagnetic field lines . . . will similarly be disrupted. As a result of the explosion, this field will be locally destroyed, while countless new electrons will be introduced into the lower belt." (K.H.A. 11 May 1962) "On 19 July . . . NASA announced that as a consequence of the high altitude nuclear test of July 9, a new radiation belt had been formed, stretching from a height of about 400 km to 1600 km; it can be seen as a temporary extension of the lower Van Allen Belt." (K.H.A. 5 August 1962)SPS: Solar Power Satellite Project (1968)
In 1968 the US military proposed Solar Powered Satellites in geostationary orbit some 40,000 km above the earth, which would intercept solar radiation using solar cells on satellites and transmit it via a microwave beam to receiving antennas, called rectennas, [2] on earth. The US Congress mandated the Department of Energy and NASA to prepare an Environmental Impact Assessment on this project, to be completed by June 1980, and costing $25 Million. This project was designed to construct 60 Solar Powered Satellites [3] over a thirty year period at a cost between $500 and $800 thousand million (in 1968 dollars), providing 10% of the US energy needs in the year 2025 at a cost of $3000 per kW. At that time, the project cost was two to three times larger than the whole Department of Energy budget, and the projected cost of the electricity was well above the cost of most conventional energy sources. The rectenna sites on earth were expected to take up to 145 square kilometres of land, and would preclude habitation by any humans, animals or even vegetation. Each Satellite was to be the size of Manhattan Island.Saturn V Rocket (1975)
Due to a malfunction, the Saturn V Rocket burned unusually high in the atmosphere, above 300 km. This burn produced "a large ionospheric hole" (Mendillo, M. Et al., Science 187,343, 1975). The disturbance reduced the total electron content more than 60% over an area 1,000 km in radius, and lasted for several hours. It prevented all telecommunications over a large area of the Atlantic Ocean. The phenomenon was apparently caused by a reaction between the exhaust gases and ionospheric oxygen ions. The reaction emitted a 6300 A airglow. Between 1975 and 1981 NASA and the US Military began to design ways to test this new phenomena through deliberate experimentation with the ionosphere. [4]SPS Military Implications (1978)
Early review of the Solar Powered Satellite Project began in around 1978, and I was on the review panel. Although this was proposed as an energy program, it had significant military implications. One of the most significant, first pointed out by Michael J. Ozeroff, was the possibility of developing a satellite borne beam weapon for anti-ballistic missile (ABM) use. The satellites were to be in geosynchronous orbits, each providing an excellent vantage point from which an entire hemisphere can be surveyed continuously. It was speculated that a high energy laser beam could function as a thermal weapon to disable or destroy enemy missiles. There was some discussion of electron weapon beams, through the use of a laser beam to preheat a path for the following electron beam. [5] Here is an artist's concept of what beaming all that energy down to the ground looks like:Climatological and heating effects of the microwave power transmission system in the lower atmosphere.President Carter approved the SPS Project and gave it a go-ahead, in spite of the reservation which many reviewers, myself included, expressed. Fortunately, it was so expensive, exceeding the entire Department of Energy budget, that funding was denied by the Congress. I approached the United Nations Committee on Disarmament on this project, but was told that as long as the program was called Solar Energy by the United States, it could not be considered a weapons project. The same project resurfaced in the US under President Reagan, moved to the much larger budget of the Department of Defence, and called Star Wars. [8] Since this is more recent history, I will not discuss the debate which raged over this phase of the plan. By 1978, it was apparent to the US Military that communications in a nuclear hostile environment would not be possible using traditional methods of radio and television technology (Jane's Military Communications 1978). By 1982, GTE Sylvania (Needham Heights, Massachusetts), had developed a command control electronic sub-system for the US Air Force's Ground Launch Cruise Missiles (GLCM) that would enable military commanders to monitor and control the missile prior to launch both in hostile and non-hostile environments. The system contains six radio subsystems, created with visible light using a dark beam (not visible), resistant to the disruptions experienced by radio and television. [9] Dark beams contribute to the formation of energetic plasma in the atmosphere. This plasma can become visible as smog or fog. Some has a different charge than the sun's energy, and accumulates in places where the sun's energy is absent, like the polar regions in the winter. When the polar spring occurs, the sun appears and repels this plasma, contributing to holes in the ozone layer. This military system is called: Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN). (See The SECOM II Communication System, by Wayne Olsen, SAND 78-0391, Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 1978). This innovative emergency radio system was apparently never implimented in Europe, and exists only in North America.Between 60 and 500 km, the atmosphere is subject to modification from rocket thruster effluents and from oblation materials generated upon vehicle reentry. The major effects appear to occur in the ionospheric F2 region, resulting primarily in enhanced airglow. While not posing any threat to safety at ground level, it may affect planetside optical sensing devices. Beyond 500 km, the effects are related to heavy ion concentration due to rocket effluents, and to electric and magnetic fields generated by the orbiting SPS. These potential problems are not well understood and require further study. Because of deficiencies in our understanding of the physical and chemical processes above 40 or 50 km, especially with regard to water budget, there is a large uncertainty connected with any prediction. However, climatic effects that may arise from SPS-related perturbations in stratospheric and mesospheric composition are not expected to be highly significant (U.S. DOE, 1978a). [7]
Orbit Maneuvering System (1981)
Part of the plan to build the SPS space platforms was the demand for reusable space shuttles, since they could not afford to keep discarding rockets. The NASA Spacelab 3 Mission of the Space Shuttle made, in 1981, "a series of passes over a network of five ground based observatories" in order to study what happened to the ionosphere when the Shuttle injected gases into it from the Orbit Maneuvering System (OMS). [10][11]They discovered that they could "induce ionospheric holes", and began to experiment with holes made in the day time, or at night over Millstone, Connecticut, and Arecibo, Puerto Rico. [12][13] They experimented with the effects of "artificially induced ionospheric depletions on very low frequency wave lengths, on equatorial plasma instabilities, and on low frequency radio astronomical observations over Roberval, Quebec, Kwajelein, in the Marshall Islands and Hobart, Tasmania. (Advanced Space Research, Vol.8, No. 1, 1988)Innovative Shuttle Experiments (1985)
An innovative use of the Space Shuttle to preform space physics experiments in earth orbit was launched, using the OMS injections of gases to "cause a sudden depletion in the local plasma concentration, the creation of a so-called ionospheric hole". [14] This artificially induced plasma depletion can then be used to investigate other space phenomena, such as the growth of the plasma instabilities or the modification of radio propagation paths. The 47 second OMS burn of July 29,1985, produced the largest and most long-lived ionospheric hole to date, dumping some 830 kg of exhaust into the ionosphere at sunset. [15] A 6 second, 68 km OMS release above Connecticut in August 1985, produced an airglow which covered over 400,000 square km. [16]"An example of acid rain that is principally due to hydrochloric acid occurs in Cape Canaveral, Florida when a space shuttle is launched. The space shuttle has two solid rocket boosters that operate for the first two minutes of flight to provide the additional thrust needed for the shuttle to escape the gravitational pull of the earth. The incredible amount of energy comes from the oxidation of aluminum to alumina by ammonium perchlorate. This reaction produces about 60 tons of HCl close enough to the ground to cause severe environmental damage in areas within 20 miles of the launch site." "Every launch the shuttle uses 1.1 million pounds of solid fuel propellant costing 1.72 million dollars. This solid propellant is 70% ammonium perchlorate (oxidizer), 16% aluminum powder, 12% polybutadiene acrylic acid acrylo nitrite as a complex polymeric binder, 2% epoxy curing agent and 0.17% iron oxide powder as a catalyst." [17][18]
Mighty Oaks (1986)
In April 1986, just before the Chernobyl disaster, [19] the US had a failed hydrogen test at the Nevada Test Site called Mighty Oaks. [20] This test, conducted far underground, consisted of a hydrogen bomb explosion in one chamber, with a leaded steel door to the chamber, two metres thick, closing within milliseconds of the blast. The door was to allow only the first radioactive beam to escape into the "control room" in which expensive instrumentation was located. The radiation was to be captured as a weapon beam. The door failed to close as quickly as planned, causing the radioactive gases and debris to fill the control room, destroying millions of dollars worth of equipment. The experiment was part of a program to develop X-ray and particle beam weapons. The radioactive releases from Mighty Oaks were vented, under a "licensed venting", and were likely responsible for many of the North American nuclear fallout reports in May 1986, which were attributed to the Chernobyl disaster. [21]Desert Storm (1991)
According to Defence News, April 13 - 19, 1992, the US deployed an electromagnetic pulse weapon (EMP) in Desert Storm, designed to mimic the flash of electricity from a nuclear bomb. The Sandia National Laboratory had built a 23,000 square metre laboratory on the Kirkland Air Force Base, 1989, to house the Hermes III electron beam generator capable of producing 20 Trillion Watt pulses lasting 20 billionths to 25 billionths of a second. This X-ray simulator is called a Particle Beam Fusion Accelerator. [22] A stream of electrons hitting a metal plate can produce a pulsed X-ray or gamma ray. Hermes II had produced electron beams since 1974. These devises were apparently tested during the Gulf War, although detailed information on them is sparse.On SPUR and the ACRR: "Odd facility 1 is a 2-reactor facility; I spent a week there while I worked for the lab. The inner facility is the SPUR, Sandia Pulse reactor. Plates of enriched uranium, basically, with a negative temperature coefficient. It´s used to irradiate military stuff (or used to be, I have no idea when it was last used) as a simulation of an atomic explosion. According to the people who had been there a while, when SPUR fired you could be in the parking lot on the left with your eyes closed, and the blue flashes you´d see were fast neutrons zipping through your eyeballs. Nice, eh? Anyway, SPUR uses ´weapons grade´ material, thus the safeguards. None of this was classified when I was there, by the way. The other area inside the main fence is ACRR, (Annular core research reactor), a 2MW toy reactor used for various tests. We used it to play with diffractive optics; fun project. There´s also GIF, the gamma irradiation facility, inside the same building. Amusingly, the office building on the left was a minor scandal at the time; major cost overruns." [23] Last November, the pulsed-power Particle Beam Fusion Accelerator Z-pinch configuration (PBFA-Z) produced 1.8 megajoules (mj) of energy -- the same energy level that NIF theoretically would produce. The PBFA-Z's X-ray power peaked at more than 160 trillion watts, prompting a Sandia newsletter to report that the powerful "shots" could "provide data for computer simulations used to predict the physics within, and effect of, a nuclear blast."[24][25][26][27][28]
High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program HAARP (1993)
The HAARP Program is jointly managed by the US Air Force and the US Navy, and is based in Gakona, Alaska. [29][30][31] It is designed to "understand, simulate and control ionospheric processes that might alter the performance of communication and surveillance systems". The HAARP system intends to beam 3.6 Gigawatts of effective radiated power of high frequency radio energy into the ionosphere in order to: generate extremely low frequency (ELF) waves for communicating with:- submerged submarines,
- conduct geophysical probes to identify and characterize natural ionospheric processes so that techniques can be developed to mitigate or control them,
- generate ionospheric lenses to focus large amounts of high frequency (HF) energy, thus providing a means of triggering ionospheric processes that potentially could be exploited for Department of Defence purposes,
- electron acceleration for infrared (IR) and other optical emissions which could be used to control radio wave propagation properties,
- generate geomagnetic field aligned ionization to control the reflectionscattering properties of radio waves,
- use oblique heating to produce effects on radio wave propagation, thus broadening the potential military applications of ionospheric enhancement technology.
Poker Flat Rocket Launch (1968 to Present)
The Pocker Flat Research Range is located about 50 km North of Fairbanks, Alaska, and it was established in 1968. [32] It is operated by the Geophysical Institute with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, under NASA contract. About 250 major rocket launches have taken place from this site, and in 1994, a 16 metre long rocket was launched to help NASA "understand chemical reactions in the atmosphere associated with global climate change". Similar experiments, but using Chemical Release Modules (CRM) have been launched from Churchill, Manitoba. In 1980, Brian Whelan's "Project Waterhole", disrupted an aurora borealis, bringing it to a temporary halt. [33] In February 1983, the chemical released into the ionosphere caused an aurora borealis over Churchill. In March 1989, two Black Brant X's and two Nike Orions rockets were launched over Canada, releasing barium at high altitudes and creating artificial clouds. These Churchill artificial clouds were observed from as far away as Los Alamos, New Mexico.Conclusions
It would be rash to assume that HAARP is an isolated experiment which would not be expanded. It is related to fifty years of intensive and increasingly destructive programs to understand and control the upper atmosphere. It would be rash not to associate HAARP with the space laboratory construction which is separately being planned by the United States. HAARP is an integral part of a long history of space research and development of a deliberate military nature. The military implications of combining these projects is alarming. Basic to this project is control of communications, both disruption and reliability in hostile environments. The power wielded by such control is obvious. The ability of the HAARP / Spacelab/ rocket combination to deliver a very large amount of energy, comparable to a nuclear bomb, anywhere on earth via laser and particle beams, are frightening. The project is likely to be "sold" to the public as a space shield against incoming weapons, or , for the more gullible, a devise for repairing the ozone layer. source: http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/212/45492.htmlReferences
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Argus2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectenna
3. http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/conceptual_study_of_a_solar_power_satellite_sps_2000.shtml
4. http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a445929.pdf Probing of the Artificial Hole in the Ionosphere with the HF Skywave Radar a445929
5. http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/library/1978DOESPS-MilitaryImplications-Ozeroff.pdf Satellite Power System (SPS) Military Implications
6. http://www.propagation.gatech.edu/ECE6390/project/Fall2011/group7/DeathRaytheorp/Website/CostTimeline.html DeathRaytheorp (Death Raytheon Corporation?)
7. http://argee.net/Satellite-Hydrogen%20Energy/Satellite-Hydrogen%20Energy.htm Hydrogen Energy Process, Proceedings of the 3rd World Hydrogen Energy Conference
8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
9. http://faculty.physics.tamu.edu/ggp/Publications/012-DreischuhApplPhysB99-2.pdf Steering one-dimensional odd dark beams of finite length
10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Orbital_Maneuvering_System
11. http://jacques.happyones.com/spacelab/51-f-press-kit.txt
12. http://www.haystack.mit.edu/atm/mho/index.html
13. http://www.naic.edu/
14. http://www.haystack.mit.edu/~jcf/papers/shuttle.htm
15. http://www.ann-geophys.net/18/111/2000/angeo-18-111-2000.pdf
16. http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1986/JA091iA02p01684.shtml
17. http://www.chem.uic.edu/chemvan/Labs/Download/PDF/Shuttle.pdf
18. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/rockets/4330380 Popular Mechanics: How to Make an Environmentally Friendly Rocket Fuel
19. http://www.davistownmuseum.org/cbm/Rad7b.html
20. http://r3zn8d.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/off-site-monitoring-for-the-mighty-oak-nuclear-test.pdf Off-Site Monitoring for the Mighty Oak Nuclear Test
21. http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ocas/pdfs/sec/nts/pet3/nts3pet.pdf Mighty Oak Nevade Test Site Special Exposure Cohort Petition
22. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Charging+their+way+toward+fusion-a04067205
23. http://wikimapia.org/11146877/Annular-core-research-reactor Anonymous
24. https://share.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/acrr/ Sandia’s Annular Core Research Reactor conducts 10,000th operation
25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa0Fmcv83nw
26. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Rekindling+the+arms+race-a019699281
27. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRESTLE ATLAS-I TRESTLE EMP Test Facility
28. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening Radiation Hardening
29. href="https://climateviewer.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/birth-haarp-sky-heaters/
30. href="https://climateviewer.wordpress.com/2014/09/19/haarp-worlds-sexiest-energy-weapon/
31. https://climateviewer.com/mobile/index.html?layersOn=f09 Map of HAARP in Gakona, Alaska, USA
32. http://www2.gi.alaska.edu/dac2/
33. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1982aiaa.confQ....H
34. http://www.physics.ucla.edu/plasmalab/
35. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/navy/docs/scmp/part07.htm
Further References
- C.L. Herzenberg, Physics and Society, April 1994.
- R. Williams, Physics and Society, April 1988.
- B. Eastlund, Microwave News, May/June 1994.
- W. Kofman and C. Lathuillere, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol 14, No. 11, pp 1158-1161, November 1987 (Includes French experiments at EISCAT).
- G. Metz and F.W. Perkins. "Ionospheric Modification Theory: Past Present and Future", Radio Science, Vol.9, No. 11, pp 885-888, November 1974.
The moral of the story
Poker Flats shoots sounding rockets that cut a hole in the ionosphere. This creates a tornado (cyclotron) in the ionosphere. HIPAS helps focus HAARP's transmissions inside this hole, creating an artificial plasma lens inside the vortex. This lens can be rotated, providing signal steering, sending transmissions out into space, riding the van allen belts, and landing on the "conjugate location" on the opposite hemisphere of the world.This article is part of the series: HAARP and the Sky Heaters
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