Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 15:12:07 -0400
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Washington Weather Wonderland
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

"Strong, Lee" wrote:

>         Been done.  Many moons ago, _Analog_ published a short story in
> which we developed effective weather control and rained on the Soviets until
> their defense installations flooded and/or corroded.
>         Whilst watching the Western forest fires on TV, I flashed back to
> John Brunner's _Stand on Zanzibar_ in which idle hands commit sabotage for
> entertainment, and I wondered if Osama bin Ladin was taking notes.

Far better was "The Last Vial," serialized in AMAZING (two instalments) circa
1959-60.  It dealt with a covert biological war between the US, China and the
Soviet Union; the US used weather-tampering to ruin Russian wheat crops.

--Ted White