Memo from . To: Don 8.

JOSHUA LEDERBERG IRL
SEP 27 1971
Stormfury Project

The SRI study was funded by the Dept. of
Commerce; after administrative reshuffling,
the report was ultimately under NOAA ausfices.

Call Warner North at SRI for knowledgeable
héstory of the pxeyeekx entire effort.

There is no evidence that hurricanes can be

* steered; but I do not doubt that meteorological
interventoons -- like watee-grabbing-- will have
to be put under some system of international
control. Trouble is, most people are too skeppeza
skeptical that anything is happening at all to
allow a serious effort at estabdishing legal
controls to get under way. Which was the point

of my article.

*their path is supposed to be dominated by the
much larger weather system.

 

 

PROFESSOR JOSHUA LEDERBERG
Department of Genetics
School of Medicine

Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305