In September 2013, Professor Michio Kaku talked about weather management on the American CBS channel.
Presenter: Can you really control the weather with lasers?
Michio: Right, you know what Mark Twain said, everyone complains about the weather, but doesn't do anything. Well, instead of dancing with a tambourine, we are scientists - we irradiate the heavens with lasers with a power of trillions of watts to cause rain from clouds or even lightning.
Presenter: This is potentially an epoch-making discovery, but is it just experiments so far?
Michio: Right. So far, everything is working out in laboratories. Taking water vapor and particles of dust or ice, you can cause rain, because it condenses around the particles and these particles can be created with a laser beam, using a laser with a power of trillions of watts - a stream of electrons creates ions. And these ions act like dust particles causing rain and lightning.
Presenter: Awesome! I remember stories about how China used it at the Olympics, and in the USSR it caused rain clouds over Chernobyl. Does it really work? Can we do that too?
Michio: There is evidence that the rainy season was triggered in this way in the 1960s to wash away the guerrillas in Vietnam. The government is using these technologies …
Presenter: Presumably! Presumably!
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Michio: Well yeah … Presumably … So we realized that … Presumably … the government has been experimenting with the weather for decades. But nothing is known for sure)))
