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Rapley, Chris, 259 Ruddiman, William, 228
Rasch, Philip, 260 Ruggles, Daniel, 62–64, 66, 67, 81, 264
RCA Laboratory. See Radio Corporation of Rusin, Nikolai Petrovich, 199–200, 203–204
America Laboratory Rusk, Jeremiah, 64–65
Red Green Show (television show), 25 Russian Academy, 167
Red Mars (Robinson), 25
reforestation, 245 sacrifices, 78
Reich, Wilhelm, 11, 103 Sahara Desert, 204–205, 265
Reichelderfer, Francis W., 148, 173 Salawitch, Ross, 261
Remington Arms, 172 Salter, Steven, 259
remote sensing, 134, 197 sand, electrified, 11, 112–122, 117, 118, 235
“Report on the Barnhouse Effect” (Von- Sanford, Fernando, 141
negut), 46 San Francisco Chronicle (newspaper), 101
Restoring the Quality of Our Environment Sarnoff, David, 194
(PSAC), 238 satellite remote sensing, 12, 197
Revelle, Roger, 226, 238 satellites, 134, 209–210, 215
Revenge of Gaia, The (Lovelock), 227 saw grass, 57
Rex, Daniel, 151, 152 Schaefer, Vincent, 101, 137, 139, 143–144,
Rhees, William J., 66 144, 146–148, 149, 154, 171, 172, 194–195,
Rhine, Joseph Banks, 138 196; Project Cirrus and, 151, 153, 155, 157
Richardson, Louis Fry, 192, 223 Schelling, Thomas, 228, 243, 262–264
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 194 Schiller, Friedrich, 78
Riehl, Herb, 177 Schmidt, Gavin, 234–235
rifle system, 247–249 Schneider, Stephen, 241–242, 246, 258
Riker, Carroll Livingston, 201 Science (magazine), 216, 241, 261
Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, 39–40, 48 science fiction, 24–26
Robinson, Kim Stanley, 25 Scientific American (magazine), 71
Robock, Alan, 233, 260 Scientific Revolution, 51–52
rocketry, 108, 217–219 Scribner’s Magazine, 38
Rock Island Railroad Company, 87, 145 seawater, as cloud-seeding agent, 259
Rodin, M. B., 210 Sellers, Mulberry, 28–29
Rome Plow, 182 Seneca, 78
Röntgen rays, 112 Sevastopol, siege of, 60
Roosevelt, Franklin, 171 “Sex and Death in the Rational World of
Roosevelt, Theodore, 35 Defense Intellectuals” (Cohn), 257
Rossby, Carl-Gustav, 214 Shakespeare, William, 109
Roudaire, François Elie, 204 Shaler, Nathaniel, 201
Rowland, Sherwood, 222–223 Shapley, Harlow, 207
Royal Academy of Engineering, 261 Shaw, Napier, 127, 236
Royal Aircraft Establishment, 128 Shepherd, John, 261
Royal Air Force (RAF), 129–131 Shih, I-Fu, 265
Royal Meteorological Society, 219 Shvets, M. Ye., 236
Royal Society of London, 51, 258–261; Philo- silver iodide (AgI), 9, 42, 153–155; Bernard
sophical Transactions, 258–261 Vonnegut and, 137; as cloud-seeding

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