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Weather weapons: why the atmosphere could become the next geopolitical battleground

South China Morning Post
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Weather weapons: why the atmosphere could become the next geopolitical battleground
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When devastating floods swept through Assam in northeastern India in 2018, the disaster quickly triggered a troubling question within New Delhi’s security corridors. As technology advances, could control over the weather become a tool of geopolitical pressure, or even a weapon?
Much of the concern centred on neighbouring China. Assam’s then finance minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, publicly warned about Beijing’s Tianhe, or Sky River, initiative, one of the world’s largest weather-modification...

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