In October 1945 Vladimir K. Zworykin, Associate Research Director at the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) Laboratory in Princeton wrote his influential, but now all but forgotten mimeographed Outline of Weather Proposal. He began by discussing the importance to meteorology of accurate prediction, which he thought was entering a new era. Modern communication systems were beginning to allow the systematic compilation of scattered and remote observations, and new computing equipment was becoming available that could either solve the equations of atmospheric motion or at least search quickly for statistical regularities and past analogue weather conditions. He imagined an automatic plotting board that would quickly digest and display all this information. Zworykin suggested that exact scientific weather knowledge might allow for effective weather control. If a perfectly accurate machine could be developed that could predict the immediate future state of the atmosphere and identify the precise time and location of leverage points or locations sensitive to rapid storm development, then intervention might be possible
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