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47. Chary, History of Air Weather Service Weather Modification, abstract.
48. National Academy of Sciences, Weather and Climate Modification, 24.
49. Fleming, “Pathological History,” 13.
50. “Dienbienphu Push Renewed by Reds,” New York Times, April 23, 1954, 2.
51. Contributions to the History of Dien Bien Phu, 201.
52. Doel and Harper, “Prometheus Unleashed.”
53. Science of Superstorms (British Broadcasting Corporation).
54. Handler to Pell, July 25, 1972, in U.S. Senate, Prohibiting Military Weather Modifica-
tion, 153.
55. Quoted in U.S. House of Representatives, Prohibition of Weather Modification, 5;
Munk, oreskes, and Muller, “Gordon James Fraser MacDonald.”
56. “Hearing on Senate Resolution 281”; Congressional Record, July 11, 1973, 233303–5.
57. Seymour M. Hersh, “U.S. Admits Rain-Making from ’67 to ’72 in Indochina,” New
York Times, May 19, 1974, 1; U.S. House of Representatives, Weather Modification as
a Weapon.
58. Gromyko to United Nations secretary-general, August 7, 1974, in U.S. House of
Representatives, Weather Modification as a Weapon, 11–12.
59. U.S. House of Representatives, Weather Modification as a Weapon, 510–513; Juda,
“Negotiating a Treaty,” 28.
60. United Nations, “Convention on the Prohibition.”
61. United Nations, Multilateral Treaties Deposited, 667.
62. Goldblat, “Environmental Convention,” 57.
63. Owning the Weather (Greene).
64. Chamorro and Hammond, Addressing Environmental Modification.
65. United Nations, Multilateral Treaties Deposited, 667.
66. Conway, “World According to GARP,” 131–147.
67. Marshall, “Greening of the National Labs,” 25.
68. Stapler, “New Face of the Pacific,” n.p.
69. Cohen, “DoD News Briefing,” n.p.
7. fears, fantasies, and Possibilities of Control
1. Tuan, Landscapes of Fear, 6.
2. von Neumann, “Can We Survive Technology?”
3. Harper, Weather by the Numbers; see also Phillips, “General Circulation”; Smagorin-
sky, “Beginnings of Numerical”; Thompson, “History of Numerical”; and Nebeker,
Calculating the Weather.
4. Zworykin, “outline of Weather Proposal,” 8.
5. von Neumann to Zworykin, october 24, 1945, in Zworykin, “outline of Weather
Proposal.”
6. Athelstan F. Spilhaus, “Comments on Weather Proposal,” November 6, 1945, in
Zworykin, “outline of Weather Proposal.”
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