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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: could control over the weather become a new tool of geopolitical pressure or warfare? 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...

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