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The cost of building HAARP has exceeded the dollar-adjusted cost of similar facilities around the world. HAARP was constructed at the site of an obsoleted over-the-horizon radar facility for political reasons, but its ___location was less than ideal from a scientific perspective. Some believe that it was constructed as a [[pork barrel]] project for [[Alaska]] by Senator [[Ted Stevens]].
*'''Weapon''':
The objectives of the HAARP project became the subject of controversy in the mid-[[1990s]], following claims that the antennas could be used as a weapon. A small group of American physicists aired complaints in scientific journals such as ''Physics and Society'', charging that HAARP could be seeking ways to blow other countries' spacecraft out of the sky or disrupt communications over large portions of the planet. The physicist critics of HAARP have had little complaint about the project's current stage, but have expressed fears that it could in future be expanded into an experimental weapon.
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After the physicists raised early concerns, the controversy was stoked by local activism. In September [[1995]], a book entitled ''Angels Don't Play This HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology'' by Nick Begich, Jr., son of the late Congressman [[Nick Begich]], claimed that the project ''in its present stage'' could be used for "geophysical warfare". HAARP has subsequently become a target for those who have suggested that it could be used to test the ability "to deliver very large amount of energy, comparable to a nuclear bomb, anywhere on earth", "changing weather patterns", "blocking all global communications", "disrupting human mental processes" and [[mind control]], communicating with submarines, and "x-raying the earth".
*'''Russians''':
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