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Similar sentiments of controlling the weather/climate were expressed in the USA too, although they never went anywhere:

http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~kite/doc/von_Neumann_1955.pdf

(see page 8 of the pdf)

I remember the conspiracy theory that HAARP was a secret weather control weapon. Some argued that the US had used weather weapons during the Vietnam War to create rain and bog down the North Vietnamese.

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