The physicist Edward Teller estimated that a constellation of satellites providing continuous atmospheric measurements over a onesquarekilometer grid worldwide, which is currently cost-prohibitive, would only improve long-range forecasts from the current five days to approximately 14 days.
The second major part of the strategy was to halt the aggression of the Soviet Union, and indeed, during his term of office, there was not onesquarekilometer of new soil that fell beneath the boots of Soviet troops.
The 700, 000-square-kilometer Niger Delta is one of the most important wetlands in the world and home to 31 million people -- 60 percent of whom, according to the U.N.