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Sixty years ago, Â鶹´«Ã½ considered exploding bombs in the Arctic Ocean
Sixty years ago, meteorologists were beginning to think about climate change. On 4 December 1958, Â鶹´«Ã½ ran a short story on “a way in which man might drastically alter the weather”.
Harry Wexler was director of meteorological research at the US Weather Bureau and one of first to write about what we now call geoengineering. We reported on an article he wrote for Science (), which considered “what would happen if ten ‘clean’ 10-megaton bombs were detonated in the Arctic Ocean in winter”.
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