title: Climate control: United States weather modification in the cold war and beyond.
abstract: Rainmaking, hail busting, fog lifting, snowpack enhancing, lightning suppressing, hurricane snuffing...weather control. At the lunatic fringe of scientific discussion in the early twentieth century--and the subject of newspaper articles with tones ranging from skeptical titters to awestruck wonder--weather modification research became more serious after World War II. In the United States, the 'seeds' of silver iodide and dry ice purported to enhance rainfall and bust hailstorms soon became seeds of controversy from which sprouted attempts by federal, state and local government to control the controllers and exploit 'designer weather' for their own purposes.
authors.affiliation: Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah, 380 S 1400 E, Room 201, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA. kharper@nmt.edu
authors.forename: Kristine C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Harper
mesh_terms: D002980:Climate; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000266:history*; D004190:Disasters / Q000266:history*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000266:history*; D006078:Government Programs / Q000266:history*; D033161:Government Regulation; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D012107:Research Design; D014481:United States; D014857:Warfare; D014887:Weather