Picture, then, a South American cartel of the mid-2090's. But this doesn't mean waiting around for the skies to turn - because by then, thunderstorms will be made to order. Next we seed any one of the daily rain showers passing through the region, intensifying it precisely over the target. Then we snuff out our blinded enemy. Over the course of the next century, the weather will be our most powerful weapon.
Weather modification can provide battlespace dominance to a degree never before imagined.
By 2025 it will be within the realm of possibility. Ironically, three years after the report was issued, that's what Air Force officials would have you think. We have no plans to try and modify the weather. Whatever the truth about the military's attitude toward weather modification, the private sector won't wait for Lewis to answer his own questions. Introduced in the 1940s, the tactic has made huge leaps of late thanks to a new method known as hydroscopic seeding.