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UCAR. See University Corporation for U.S. Department of Defense, 124–125, 151,
Atmospheric Research 171, 214, 254, 262
Ulam, Stanislaw, 46 U.S. Department of Energy, 262
United Nations (UN), 6, 12, 166, 183–184; U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 153,
Conference of the Committee on 187, 262
Disarmament, 184; Convention on the U.S. Geological Survey, 66
Prohibition of Military or Any other U.S. Navy: Bureau of Aeronautics, 127; Espy
Hostile Use of Environmental Modi- and, 67; Joint Numerical Weather Predic-
fication Techniques (ENMoD), 166, tion Unit (with Air Force and Weather
183–187; Educational, Scientific, and Bureau), 215; meteorological data of, 169;
Cultural organization (UNESCo), Naval ordinance Test Station, 178; Proj-
194; Environment Program (UNEP), ect Stormfury and, 177–178; seeding of
225–226; Framework Convention on storms by, 174; Warren and, 120; Weather
Climate Change (UNFCCC), 226 Research Facility, 178
University Corporation for Atmospheric U.S. Weather Bureau, 6, 64; Cloud Physics
Research (UCAR), 125 Research Project (with Air Force), 151;
University Meteorological Committee, 214 electrified sand and, 116; Geophysical
University of California–San Diego: Center Fluid Dynamics Lab, 215; Gregg and,
for Energy and Combustion Research, 132–133; Hatfield and, 91–92, 95; Joint
243; Scripps Institution of oceanogra- Numerical Weather Prediction Unit
phy, 195 (with Air Force and Navy), 215; Lang-
U.S. Air Force: Cloud Physics Research muir and, 158–159; Wexler and, 214
Project (with Weather Bureau), 151; Joint U.S. Weather Control Bureau, 97–99
Numerical Weather Prediction Unit “Use of Asphalt Coatings to Increase Rain-
(with Navy and Weather Bureau), 215; fall, The” (Black and Tarmy), 237
Strategic Air Command, 195; Weather
Reconnaissance Squadron, 180, 182; Vaillant, Jean-Baptiste Philibert, 60
Weather Resources and Programs, 165; Van Allen, James, 168, 210
Weather Service, 156 Van Allen radiation belts, 209–210
U.S. Army: Air Force, 100, 139–140, 214; Air Veraart, August, 142–143, 147
Weather Service, 169, 181, 185; Medical Vernadsky, Vladimir, 231
Department, 169; ordnance Depart- Verne, Jules, 10, 26–27, 48, 201, 204–205
ment, 172; Signal office, 62, 150, 169 Vietnam, 12, 179–182
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 171, Virgil, 109
209–210 volcanoes, artificial, 7, 20, 50, 53–58, 187
U.S. Climate Change Technology Program, von Kármán, Theodore, 231
253–254 Vonnegut, Bernard, 46, 101, 137, 144, 153–155,
U.S. Congress: House of Representatives, 62, 157
183; Senate, 55, 64, 183; testimony before, Vonnegut, Kurt, 10, 45–46, 153
171, 172, 176, 181, 183, 266 von Neumann, John, 12, 189–191, 193–194,
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of 214, 222–224, 226
Forestry, 65 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (film), 24
U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of
Air Commerce, 127 Wainscoat, Richard, 233

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