This half hour interview – Weaponizing the Weather | CNA – from the “Coming in from the Cold” podcast is worth your time if you are interested in the history of US efforts to control the weather (not a conspiracy, yes humans did get boots on the moon).
The guest, Jim Fleming, wrote – among other things – Fixing the Sky.
Bits I took –
19th century weather modification con-artists.
Post WW2 – GE heavily into weather modification until their lawyers told them they were opening themselves up to all sorts of law suits.
US Weather Bureau chief Harry Wexler as a mensch (his life cut short) and his 1958 article in Science “Modifying Weather on a Large Scale”
Edward Lorenz speech in November 1960 in Tokyo basically saying you weren’t gonna be able to control the weather because it’s not just complex but chaotic.
There’s lots of other good stuff (Project Storm Fury etc etc).
In doing the link-hunting for this post I found this – women denied credit for their work? Eh, how is this possible? A very rare instance, thankfully…