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National Advisory Committee on Aviation, nuclear bombs, 170–171, 192, 196, 209–212,
215 216
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Nuclear Explosions for the National
213–214 Economy, 199
National Centers for Environmental Predic- nuclear power, 12, 162
tion, 215 nuclear winter, 243
National Defense Research Council, 139, nucleation, 46, 154
168 numerical weather prediction (NWP),
National Hurricane Research Project 197
(NHRP), 177 NWP. See numerical weather prediction
National oceanic and Atmospheric Admin-
istration (NoAA), 185 oberth, Herman, 207
National Science Foundation (NSF), 169, ocean iron fertilization (oIF), 2, 245,
178, 262 249–250, 259–260
natural gas, 238, 263 o’Connor, William Douglas, 30
nature, states of, 49–50 office of Scientific Research and Develop-
Navajo (North American Indians), 43 ment (oSRD), 139–140, 168
Nebraska, rainmakers in, 86–89 oIF. See ocean iron fertilization
nephelescopes, 53 olympics, 101, 107
New Atlantis, The (Bacon), 50 oman, Luke, 260
New Mexico, 155–158 110 in the Shade (Nash), 42
Newsweek (magazine), 176 “on the Possibilities of Climate Control”
New York Enquirer (newspaper), 97 (Wexler), 213, 216, 224
New Yorker (magazine), 41–42, 95, 98, 194 operation Argus, 209–210, 219
New York Times (newspaper), 112, 179, 256 operation Cumulus (operation Witchdoc-
New York World (newspaper), 72, 116 tor), 161–162
NHRP. See National Hurricane Research operation Hardtack, 209
Project operation Motorpool (Intermediary-Com-
Nimitz, Chester W., 171 patriot), 179–182, 241
Nitrogen Fix, The (Clement), 25 operation Starfish, 219
nitrogen fixation process, 37 orgone, 103
nitroglycerine, 62, 247–248 orville, Howard T., 174–176
nitrous oxide, 248, 249, 250 oSRD. See office of Scientific Research and
Nixon, Richard M., 180, 181–183 Development
NoAA. See National oceanic and Atmo- ostwald, Wilhelm, 113
spheric Administration Our Man Flint (film), 25
noosphere, 231 “outline of Weather Proposal” (Zworykin),
Nordhaus, William, 246, 247 192, 193, 222
North American Water and Power Alliance, Owning the Weather (film), 83
205–206 oxygen, 37–38
Norwegian Forecasting Service, 156 oxy-hydrogen balloons, 65–66, 67, 71
Novim Group, 249 ozone depletion, 219–222, 221, 222, 225, 247,
“N-rays,” 137 261
NSF. See National Science Foundation ozone layer, 217–223, 265

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