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59. Havens, Juisto, and Vonnegut, Early History.
60. Vonnegut interview.
61. Langmuir, “Report on Evaluation,” 23.
62. Petterssen, Weathering the Storm, 293–294.
63. Langmuir, “Seven Day Periodicity”; Brier, “7-Day Periodicities.”
64. Suits to Langmuir, August 26, 1949, copy in Vonnegut Papers.
65. Press release, January 2, 1950, GE Archives.
66. Langmuir, “Abstract of Remarks, oct. 1950,” GE Archives.
67. Hosler, “Weather Modification”; Steinberg, Slide Mountain, 106–134, 191–194.
68. Langmuir, note card, “TV Aug. 24, 8:33 am, Dave Garroway, Today,” after 1953,
Langmuir Papers.
69. “Review of Savannah Hurricane.”
70. “Rain Making Ineffective,” 375; Reichelderfer, “Letter,” 38.
71. “Scientist Would Move Rain Tests to South Pacific,” Albuquerque Tribune, April 29,
1955, 50, clipping in Schaefer Papers.
72. Langmuir, “Report on Evaluation,” 23.
73. “Scientist Would Move Rain Tests,” 50.
74. Langmuir, “Production of Rain”; Langmuir, “Report on Evaluation,” 23; “Langmuir
Predicts Hurricane Prevention,” Washington Post, August 25, 1955, 2.
75. Elliott, “Experience of the Private Sector”; “City Flip-Flop on Rainmaking,” Daily
News, November 5, 1951, clipping in Schaefer Papers; Landsberg, “Memorandum for
the Record.”
76. Science of Superstorms (British Broadcasting Corporation).
77. Ibid., cited in Richard Gray, “How We Made the Chernobyl Rain,” Sunday Tele-
graph, April 22, 2007, n.p.
78. Science of Superstorms (British Broadcasting Corporation).
79. Ibid.

6. Weather Warriors

1. Owning the Weather (Greene).
2. Stephan Farris, “Ice Free,” New York Times, July 27, 2008, MM 20.
3. Fuller, Weather and War; Fuller, Thor’s Legions.
4. Fleming, “Sverre Petterssen,” 75–83.
5. Polybius, Universal History, bk. 8; Rossi, Birth of Modern Science.
6. Hacker, “Military Patronage”; Mendelsohn, “Science, Scientists.”
7. McNeill, Pursuit of Power; Fleming, “Distorted Support.”
8. Gillispie, Science and Polity.
9. U.S. Army Medical Department, “Regulations,” 227.
10. Fleming, “Storms, Strikes, and Surveillance”; see also Whitnah, History of the United
States Weather Bureau, 22–42; and Hawes, “Signal Corps.”
11. Bates and Fuller, America’s Weather Warriors, 16–26; Fleming, “Distorted Support,”
51–53.

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