Military use of weather

[falcon2]

I remember watching an infotainment show about hurricanes which showed that seeding the eye wall would cause the storm to weaken and change direction. It was a 50's and 60's style new reel and the program sayed the project was abandon of protest by cuba, who beleive the US would use the technology to level the island simply by steering storms into it.
Since tensions have somewhat relaxed since the 60s, does anyone know of research beening done on weakinging huricanes?

[pluto]

Apparently not!!


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[Mardi]

I live in New Orleans,Louisiana and I'm watching Floyd
come rolling in south enough in the Atlantic to easily take a dip into the Gulf and beat hell out of my house.

If they haven't done the research...now would
be a heck of a time to start!

joe

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[VegForLife]

This is from a friend of mine who's a meteorologist, and who (I believe) stays pretty current on technology in the field:

Research into weather modification continues in the U.S. and abroad, mostly in the areas of precipitation enhancement, and thunderstorm modification. In the case of hurricanes, they are thermally driven which creates the thunderstorms within hurricanes. To the best of my knowledge, there has been no progress in modifying hurricane intensity or direction. The power and forces of a hurricane are much more powerful than anything humans can muster, including atomic and hydrogen bombs. Most thunderstorm modification focuses on hail suppression, due to the damage that hail does to crops, livestock and property. I may not be aware of everything that the military has done on this topic, but I have not seen any evidence that something exists to modify hurricanes.

Rich