What Is The D.H.A.R.M.A. Initiative?

...the what now? Department of Hearing And Retronomical Matter Assimilations Department of Heuristics And Research on Material Applications

A column of steam emanating from a hole in the ground. A D.H.A.R.M.A. station. A war between the Natives of the Island and D.H.A.R.M.A.

A drilling accident in near station 3, the Swan, releasing a pocket of electromagnetic energy. A war between the natives of the Island and D.H.A.R.M.A. An accident.

They had a station underneath a church with similar electromagnetic anomalies to the Island. They knew it was there. They went out with a boat and somehow, magically found an Island that can move!

A station for developing chemical weapons. Experiments. It was a casino.