From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Washington Weather Wonderland
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 15:15:54 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

	In 1959-60, I was living in a medium sized town in North Carolina
where the most science fictional magazine I could find was the "Inventions
That I'd Like to See" feature in _Popular Mechanics_.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted White [mailto:tedwhite at compusnet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 3:12 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Washington Weather Wonderland

"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