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Welcome to the Scientific American podcast,

Science Talk, posted on February 28, 2013.

I'm Steve Merski.

Fidel Castro got very annoyed at the idea that we might be doing something like trying to steer

hurricanes because he was worried we were going to use them an incredible weapon for

devastating Cuba.

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