"This literature – even when it questions the assumptions and feasibility constraints underpinning large-scale CDR – tends to frame the various CDR approaches as novel and untested, and mostly focuses on hypothetical future scenarios. Yet CDR has a longer and, in many ways, more tangible history than this framing suggests – the lessons of which are largely overlooked in much of the current debate."

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"These scientists and inventors set out to change the planet with these out-of-the-box ideas."

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Scheffran, Jürgen (2019): The entwined Cold War roots of missile defense and climate geoengineering. In Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 75 (5), pp. 222–228. DOI: 10.1080/00963402.2019.1654256.

"The first approach to the nuclear and climate threat focuses on arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament and on greenhouse gas emission reductions and mitigation. The second approach involves active defense: in the nuclear realm, missile defenses against nuclear-armed delivery systems; for climate change, geoengineering that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or changes the Earth’s radiation balance."

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Masco, Joseph (2016): Terraforming Planet Earth: The Age of Fallout. In Rens van Munster, Casper Sylvest (Eds.): The Politics of Globality since 1945: Assembling the Planet: Taylor and Francis Ltd.

Chapter on nuclear testing with regard to CE ideas. "The (nuclear-petrochemical) industrial state has thus been geoengineering since 1945, remaking both atmospheres and ecologies, creating problems impossible to remediate or clean up."

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