Cloud seeding fueled fire about weather modification

Excerpt from the August 22, 1964, issue of Science News Letter

Science News cover August 22, 1964

Seeded Clouds ‘Explode’ — Cloud seeding experiments with silver iodide, resulting in “explosions” that release tremendous energies, indicate that weathermen may do more than predict weather in the future…. The explosion is first upward, then sideward. The horizontal spread is likely to prove the “most significant” for practical weather modification, two scientists reported.