Monday, May 4, 2009

BLDG Blog references Professor Fleming

A recent post on the well read blog, BLDG Blog, referenced Professor Fleming's work on the weather race during the Cold War. Here is an excert, but be sure to check out the post for more,

"In an endlessly fascinating article published two years ago in The Wilson Quarterly, historian James R. Fleming describes – among many other things – how a "weather race with the Russians" was fought on the level of climatological R&D between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. during the Cold War.
For instance, "In the 1940s," Fleming writes, "General George C. Kenney, commander of the Strategic Air Command, declared, 'The nation which first learns to plot the paths of air masses accurately and learns to control the time and place of precipitation will dominate the globe.'"

Here is the links,
BLDG Blog.

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