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I have been reading about HAARP for a few years now, and, yes, I first heard about it from an NPR interview where the interviewed suggested that it was, in fact, a 'death ray from above' that was generated from HAARP that 'shot down' the World Trade Center towers. Thats right! It was so crazy it motivated me to look it up. Most of the information I initially learned was similar to what the PopSci article says. Basically its a measuring device for the ionosphere as well as long range submarine communications. The implications of this were based upon the principal, as stated in the PopSci article, that you can 'bounce' radio waves off of the curvature of the planet to end up at varying angles... anywhere in the world you want them, ie directly above your own subs, much like aiming a pool ball on a pool table. This makes perfect sense for multiple purposes, least of which would be stealth; which, by default, wraps it in secrecy. The next was something added to that. It is an ionospheric heater. It HEATS the ionosphere. It does this using frequency ranges similar, and encompassing, those of a standard microwave oven. Heat the water vapor around an area long enough and you could, in fact, create boiling temperatures, over a long enough period of time to shoot down missiles or topple buildings? not sure, but, from the sounds of it, they can aim them fairly well, well enough to at least talk to submarines deep under water on the opposite side of the planet. What would happen if a missile flew threw an intensified version of that?, no clue, but I'd imagine it could damage the fairly sensitive electronics inside. My search purpose was much more malicious than shooting down missiles though. And it wasn't until I ran across a video on the Discovery Channel of all places. www.google.com/video "Owning the Weather" There is a part of this dedicated to HAARP which states not only how/why HAARP exists and is afforded, but very clearly states that HAARP has the ability and the power to heat a 400sq mile area to 50,000 degrees. Now, I know missiles and rockets are reentry vehicles with LOTS of heat shielding but 50,000degrees seems like enough to liquify anything, if not at least a few wires on the guidance system. But the real trick wasn't 400 sq miles to 50,000degrees, but what about 0.4sq miles? Hot enough to topple a building from 6,000 miles away? Plausible? Seems like it could be? But another part of the video brought up an even more interesting theory to me... or conspiracy. What if HAARP were used to heat oceans to 'guide' hurricanes? or tsunamis? Do you realize how many oil ports in the Texas area got their contracts renewed after Katrina went through? I read in Forbes the insurance claims were upwards of $1.5billion for the oil infrastructure alone as a direct result to Katrina. Tsunamis are another story altogether. But if I remember not too long ago, a country, a single country was locked down with the only route from Iraq/n to Vietnam w/out going through China. So locked down that even after pleas to accept tsunami aid relief, it still didn't accept it and starved millions. Hit it with a tsunami, force them to accept aid relief, and open the country up from there. My point is, space shuttles, natural disasters, and missile defense were all mentioned in the Operation Northwoods documents under Kennedy, and HAARP seems the perfect weapon of war to allow many to come to fruition. Maybe I'm crazy, but it seems enough other people are too to justify PopSci doing an article about it.