WEATHER WARS

Someone has been aiming at the sky for eighty years. This is the true story of what they hit.

In 1947, a famous chemist suggested in public that dry ice dropped into a hurricane had steered it into Georgia. In 1967, American aircraft began flying from a base in Thailand on a mission nobody was allowed to describe: make it rain on an enemy road. In 2008, a capital city fired 1,104 rockets at the clouds so that an Olympic opening ceremony would stay dry. None of it was a rumor. All of it is in the record.

Weather Wars follows the real people, programs, and panics behind humanity's oldest wish, to command the sky. It is a fast, vivid history of scientists who were brilliant, generals who were certain, salesmen who were shameless, and politicians who preferred not to ask. You will meet:

The toolmaker who made snow in a household freezer and set off a race that drew in the Army, the Navy, a Nobel laureate, and a famous novelist's brother.
The hurricane experiment that seemed to work, until nature quietly repeated it for free.
The secret campaign over the Ho Chi Minh Trail that a reporter dragged into daylight, and the treaty it forced into being.
The Soviet sky machine of rockets and radar built to shoot hail out of the clouds, and the unsettling story that surrounds Chernobyl.
Beijing, Abu Dhabi, and the new rainmakers who are spending fortunes on technology whose benefits are still hard to prove.
The sunshade question, the most dangerous idea in modern science, and who gets to decide.

Along the way, you will learn how to tell a documented secret from an invented one, why every flood now seems to arrive with a villain, and what the evidence honestly says about cloud seeding, chemtrails, and HAARP. The author does not sneer at believers or flatter them. He follows the paper trail, and the paper trail is stranger than the myths.

Written for readers of narrative history, Cold War intrigue, and science that moves like a thriller, Weather Wars is built to be finished in a single sitting and remembered long after.

Begin it tonight. Tomorrow, look up at the clouds and see them differently.