Thermonuclear Bomb Designer’s Contribution to Geoengineering
28 May 2026 | ZEROGeoengineering.com | Manhattan Project alumni Edward Teller authored the following 2002 paper, “Active Climate Stabilization: Practical Physics-Based Approaches to Prevention of Climate Change,” [1] which promotes the idea of “purposeful modification of the Earth’s radiative properties” by “emplacement of sulfate aerosol” into the stratosphere to block sunlight. This proposal is similar to military programs discussed in DARPA’s 1975 report, Soviet Developments in Weather Modification, Climate Modification and Climatology, which proposes a “…method of moderating planetary warming trends by temporarily increasing the concentration of sulfate aerosol particles in the lower stratosphere and thereby reducing global radiation.” [2]
Notably, Teller acknowledges that CO2 is NOT a key driver of temperature, even though the fear of atmospheric CO2 is a primary justification used for atmospheric experiments such as solar radiation modification (SRM) and other geoengineering schemes. The theory of a global temperature was disproven in 2007 in the paper, Does a Global Temperature Exist? by Christopher Essex. [3]
Known as the “father of the hydrogen bomb” and co-founder of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Edward Teller [4] helped to catalyze the U.S. nuclear weapons program. In the 1980’s Teller was a loyal supporter of President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) [5] which is currently being resurrected under the Trump administration as “The Golden Dome.” [6]
“…indeed, the CO2 level in the air is observed in the geologic record to be one of the weaker determinants of globally- and season-averaged temperature.”
“What we’ve done in our studies, set in the context of the UN Framework Convention’s Article 3, is merely to mass- and cost-optimize previous schemes as well as to offer a few new ones, with a little attention given to how near-term studies of such optimized schemes for assuring climatic stability might commence.”
“Conclusions. The foregoing considered, then, if you’re inclined to subscribe to the Rio Framework
Convention’s directive that mitigation of global warming should be effected in the “lowest possible
cost” manner – whether or not you believe that the Earth is indeed warming significantly above-and
beyond natural rates, and whether or not you believe that human activities are largely responsible for
such warming, and whether or not you believe that problems likely to have significant impacts only a
century hence should be addressed with current technological ways-&-means rather than be deferred for
obviating with more advanced means – then you will necessarily prefer active technical management of
radiation forcing of the Earth to administrative management of greenhouse gas inputs to the Earth’s
atmosphere, for the practical reasons sketched in the foregoing.”
“We therefore conclude that technical management of radiative forcing of the Earth’s fluid envelopes,
not administrative management of gaseous inputs to the atmosphere, is the path mandated by the
pertinent provisions of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change…
…We thus suggest that the U.S. Government would be well-advised to launch immediately an intensive program to address all of the salient issues in active technical management of radiative forcing, including well-designed sub-scale experiments in the atmosphere. All such experiments, we point out, will terminate naturally back onto the present climatic posture, moreover on known, relatively short time-scales. Due to the obvious global impacts of any management scheme of any kind, the greatest feasible international participation in this program should be invited.”
Link To Full Document ACTIVE CLIMATE STABILIZATION
Sources
[1] https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/15005941
[2] https://zerogeoengineering.com/2018/soviet-developments-in-weather-modification-climate-modification-and-climatology/
[3] https://zeronotification.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Does-Global-Temperature-Exist.pdf
[4] https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/People/Scientists/edward-teller.html
[5] https://zerogeoengineering.com/2019/strategic-defense-initiative-sdi/
[6] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-202500622/pdf/DCPD-202500622.pdf
Related
SOVIET DEVELOPMENTS IN WEATHER MODIFICATION, CLIMATE MODIFICATION AND CLIMATOLOGY
2018 Security Framework Characterizes Geoengineering as Weapon of War
FY 2026 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)
Thank you to MB