War of the Weathers

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SANTA MONICA, Calif. "From space one could control the earth's weather, cause drought and floods, change the tides and raise the levels of the sea, make temperate climates frigid," then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson told a joint session of Congress in 1957. Like many other legislators, he accepted Defense Department fantasies that the United States was in a race with the Soviet Union to develop environmental weapons....

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