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7. Waldemar Kaempffert, “Julian Huxley Pictures the More Spectacular Possibilities
That Lie in Atomic Power,” New York Times, December 9, 1945, 77; “Blasting Polar
Ice,” New York Times, February 2, 1946, 11.
8. “Sarnoff Predicts Weather Control and Delivery of the Mail by Radio,” New York
Times, october 1, 1946, 1.
9. “Talk of the Town,” New Yorker, october 12, 1946, 23.
10 . MacCracken, “on the Possible Use of Geoengineering.”
11. “Storm Prevention Seen by Scientist,” New York Times, January 31, 1947, 16.
12. “Weather to order,” New York Times, February 1, 1947, 14.
13. Wexler, “Trip Report—Princeton, N.J., oct. 14–15, 1946,” box 2, Wexler Papers.
14. Harald Sverdrup to Francis Reichelderfer, June 2, 1946, box 2, Wexler Papers.
15. “$28,000,000 Urged to Support M.I.T.,” New York Times, June 15, 1947, 46.
16. Mann, “War Against Hail,” 8.
17. Hoffman, “Controlling Hurricanes”; see also Hoffman, “Controlling the Global
Weather”; and Hoffman, Leidner, and Henderson, “Controlling the Global
Weather.”
18. Shachtman, “NASA Funds Sci-Fi Technology.”
19. Quoted in Hoffman, Leidner, and Henderson, “Controlling the Global Weather,” 1.
20. Science of Superstorms (British Broadcasting Corporation).
21. Owning the Weather (Rosen).
22. Mark Schleifstein, “Bill Gates of Microsoft Envisions Fighting Hurricanes by
Manipulating the Sea,” Times-Picayune, July 15, 2009, http://www.nola.com.
23. Lenin, Materialism.
24. Burke, “Influence of Man,” 1036, 1049–1050.
25. Zikeev and Doumani, Weather Modification.
26. Markin, Soviet Electric Power, 133.
27. Rusin and Flit, Man versus Climate, 174.
28. Rusin and Flit, Methods of Climate Control, 2.
29. Adabashev, Global Engineering, 161.
30. Shaler, “How to Change,” 728–729.
31. Riker, Conspectus of Power.
32. Borisov, “Radical Improvement of Climate.”
33. Quoted in Adabashev, Global Engineering, 192.
34. Borisov, Can We Control the Arctic Climate? 6–7.
35. Takano and Higuchi, “Numerical Experiment.”
36. Rusin and Flit, Methods of Climate Control, 25.
37. Gaskell, Gulf Stream, 152.
38. Rusin and Flit, Methods of Climate Control, 26.
39. Mackenzie, Flooding of the Sahara, 285.
40. “Algerian Inland Sea.”
41. Verne, L’Invasion de la mer.
42. G. A. Thompson, “Proposes to Turn Sahara into a Sea,” New York Times, october 15,
1911, C1; Thompson, “Plan for Converting the Sahara.”
43. Gall, Das Atlantropa-Projekt; Voigt, Atlantropa.

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