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Planet Earth: The Newest Weapon of War [Paperback]

Rosalie Bertell
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  • Paperback: 268 pages
  • Publisher: Black Rose Books (Mar 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1551641828
  • ISBN-13: 978-1551641829
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,977,502 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Environmental damage caused by military activity
‘Rosalie Bertell is an author with an expert grasp of the biological effects of radiation.’ New Scientist

‘No-one who reads it will ever be complacent again.’ Polly Toynbee, The Guardian

‘In the aftermath of the Gulf War, experts predicted that the smoke from burning oil fields would warm the lower atmosphere throughout South Asia, causing monsoon to arrive earlier and more forcefully than usual. A huge typhoon struck Bangladesh on 1 May, killing 100,000 people.’

As weaponry and warfare have become more complex and sophisticated, so the long-term effects have become more deadly. Looking not just at the visible manifestations of damage such as ‘scorched earth’, Rosalie Bertell shows how the space programme, Star Wars research, depleted uranium and electromagnetic weapons have destabilised the natural balance of the earth’s ecosystem causing widespread devastation in environmental, economic and social terms. She calls for a new approach to security, rising above national agendas, to seek global solutions to a global problem.

Dr Rosalie Bertell’s No Immediate Danger was the first book to reveal the dangers of low-level radiation causing international controversy when it was first published in 1985. Since then she has become a respected activist and lecturer, testifying before, the US Congress, the Select Committee on Uranium Resources and the Sizewell Enquiry in the UK. She lives in Canada. Rosalie Bertell has been selected by the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, UK for inclusion in 2000 Outstanding Women of the Twentieth Century. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.


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This summary of "Planet Earth: The Latest weapon of War" by Dr Rosalie Bertell is quoted from a biography of Dr Bertell by Mary-Louise Engles:

" [this book] . . . presents a wealth of information on how war and military testing are disrupting natural patterns both on the earth and in the protective layers of the atmosphere. "It is hard to scare or shock me with evidence of technological madness in our world," wrote Elizabeth May, executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada, in her review of "Planet Earth". "I am immersed in the evidence. But Rosalie Bertell's new book made me feel naive."

One startling project is HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program), an installation in Alaska that, in Dr Bertell's words, "Is related to 50 years of intensive and increasingly destructive programs to understand and control the upper atmosphere." This grid of powerful antennae and transmission towers is capable of bombarding the atmosphere with high-frequency rays, creating "controlled local modifications of the ionosphere" (outer layer of the atmosphere). A US Air Force study points to the use of such modifications as a means of altering weather patterns and disrupting enemy communications and radar.
The main military purpose of HAARP is to heat sections of the ionosphere until they bulge to form a curved "lens." This will reflect HAARP's massive energy beams back to earth, destroying selected targets--presumably without leaving a trace of what caused the devastation. Now operational, HAARP has the ability to potentially trigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and earthquakes. Scientists have warned that no one can fully predict the impact of such operations, which could affect both brain and behavior.
'Planet Earth' describes how HAARP and installations in Russia, on which the United States has collaborated, can also create pulsed, extremely low-frequency (ELF) waves. These have been directed deep into the earth itself potentially disrupting delicately posed tectonic plates of the earth's crust, such as the San Andreas Fault. There is moreover, a growing chain of extremely powerful, potentially interactive military installations, using varied types of electromagnetic fields of wavelengths, each with a different ability to affect the earth or its atmosphere. Their effects on the earth's core or the atmosphere are impossible to predict, but many have speculated that testing of this new technology is related to recent earthquakes and freak weather patterns.
"Former US Secretary of Defense William Cohen has discussed the possible threats of military experiments that affect the earth and its atmosphere, claiming that 'others' are engaging in an eco-type terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, and set off earthquakes and volcanoes remotely, through the use of electromagnetic waves. As Bertell observes, "The military has a habit of accusing others of having the same capabilities they already hold'. "

M-L Engels wrote her review the year Dr Bertell's prophetic book was published, in 2001, before the increase of earthquakes, drought, and volcanic activity we now observe as fairly common. There has been alarming indication by increasing whale beachings and deaths of increasing ELF wave-activity in the seas.

This well-written and easy to understand book, published in Canada, is expensive, not well advertised. It is difficult to find in the UK, and I am told, all but impossible to find in the USA. As a service to humanity, I wish it could be published as an e-book; if we make enough requests, it might.
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