The Weathermakers

Whether or not Ted Marrett would be able to harness the weather for the good of man depended upon some stiff opposition... In an age of cross-country rockets and undersea mining, weather is the last frontier of man, the one resource which remains untamed. An elemental power which can roar through the land with hurricane force, leaving death and destruction in its wake... But Dr. Rossman didn't believe in weather control unless he could get the credit for it; and the President and his Science Advisor didn't want to fight hurricanes in an election year; and the Pentagon felt that weather control should be a military weapon....