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Controlling Hurricanes

Can hurricanes and other severe tropical storms be moderated or deflected?

By Ross N. Hoffman   

 
MASSIVE HURRICANE
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Every year huge rotating storms packing winds greater than 74 miles per hour sweep across tropical seas

and onto shorelines--often devastating large swaths of territory. When these roiling tempests--called hurricanes in the Atlantic and the eastern Pacific oceans, typhoons in the western Pacific and cyclones in the Indian Ocean--strike heavily populated areas, they can kill thousands and cause billions of dollars of property damage. And nothing, absolutely nothing, stands in their way.

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