By Paul Dragu
The New American  

September 9, 2026

He who controls the weather will control the world.

Vice President Lyndon Johnson said those words in 1962 during a commencement speech at his alma mater, Southwest Texas State University. By then, the government had been tampering with the weather for at least 15 years. Assuming the intention was not malevolent, one of those experiments went awry in 1947 after the Air Force dropped 180 pounds of dry ice on a hurricane that was winding down off the coast of Florida.