Air Force prepares to dismantle HAARP ahead of summer shutdown
14 May 2014 The U.S. Air Force gave official notice to Congress Wednesday that it intends to dismantle the 300 million High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program in Gakona this summer. The shutdown of HAARP…will start after a final research experiment takes place in mid-June, the Air Force said in a letter to Congress Tuesday. Responding to questions from Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) during a Senate hearing Wednesday, David Walker, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for science, technology and engineering, said this is “not an area that we have any need for in the future” and it would not be a good use of Air Force research funds to keep HAARP going. “We’re moving on to other ways of managing the ionosphere, which the HAARP was really designed to do,” he said. “To inject energy into the ionosphere to be able to actually control it. But that work has been completed.” Comments of that sort have given rise to endless conspiracy theories, portraying HAARP as a superweapon capable of mind control or weather control, with enough juice to trigger hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes. [It is.]