US HAARP Weapon Development
Concerns Russian Duma
US Could Dominate The Planet If It Deploys This Weapon In Space
Interfax News Agency
8-10-2
MOSCOW (Interfax) - The Russian State Duma has expressed concern about the USA's
programme to develop a qualitatively new type of weapon.
"Under the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Programme (HAARP) [website
address: http://server5550.itd.nrl.navy.mil/projects/haarp/], the USA is creating
new integral geophysical weapons that may influence the near-Earth medium with
high-frequency radio waves," the State Duma said in an appeal circulated
on Thursday [8 August].
"The significance of this qualitative leap could be compared to the transition
from cold steel to firearms, or from conventional weapons to nuclear weapons.
This new type of weapons differs from previous types in that the near-Earth
medium becomes at once an object of direct influence and its component.
These conclusions were made by the commission of the State Duma's international
affairs and defence committees, the statement reads.
The committees reported that the USA is planning to test three facilities of
this kind. One of them is located on the military testing ground in Alaska and
its full-scale tests are to begin in early 2003. The second one is in Greenland
and the third one in Norway.
"When these facilities are launched into space from Norway, Alaska and
Greenland, a closed contour will be created with a truly fantastic integral
potential for influencing the near-Earth medium," the State Duma said.
The USA plans to carry out large-scale scientific experiments under the HAARP
programme, and not controlled by the global community, will create weapons capable
of breaking radio communication lines and equipment installed on spaceships
and rockets, provoke serious accidents in electricity networks and in oil and
gas pipelines and have a negative impact on the mental health of people populating
entire regions, the deputies said.
They demanded that an international ban be put on such large-scale geophysical
experiments.
The appeal, signed by 90 deputies, has been sent to President Vladimir Putin,
to the UN and other international organizations, to the parliaments and leaders
of the UN member countries, to the scientific public and to mass media outlets.
Among those who signed the appeal are Tatyana Astrakhankina, Nikolay Kharitonov,
Yegor Ligachev, Sergey Reshulskiy, Vitaliy Sevastyanov, Viktor Cherepkov, Valentin
Zorkaltsev and Aleksey Mitrofanov.
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