enginesrus said:
Someone did their home work.
I found three ridiculous (and contradictory) assertions in the first 30 seconds of reading.
You do realize that just because someone wrote a paper in 1966 saying that maybe controlling the weather was a good idea, does not mean that A) the belief is widely held across any government or group, B) that weather control is actually possible or C) that anyone took that paper seriously and acted on it.
This is case number 6,000 on this forum of you not understanding engineering or scientific culture. Position papers about theories are written
all the time by engineers, scientists, political and military strategists, etc. There is a
constant flow of ideas being published, by all type of think tanks and organizations. Many of them espouse ideas which are borderline, or are known to be wacky, or are even deliberately batshit crazy - because in the theoretical scientific community, there is value seen in throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks.
The fact that someone once wrote a paper about something means absolutely nothing. There's probably someone somewhere writing an internal position paper about what a great idea it would be to preemptively nuke Moscow. That doesn't mean that any one thinks it's actually a good idea, and it definitely doesn't mean that we're anywhere near executing that plan.