In southwest China, Chinese soldiers load and fire rockets toward the sky as aircraft and drones circle overhead, dropping their toxic cargo into the air. The weapons are not trained on an enemy, and the planes aren’t dropping bombs. Instead, they are targeting the clouds hovering in the sky.
This footage is just a tiny snapshot of the massive, countrywide effort to seed the clouds with rain at an unprecedented scale.
More than 50 countries around the world use cloud seeding to modify the weather at small scales, including the United States.
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