The unmanned Fugo balloon bombs were the result of many years of Japanese research on balloons as a means of carrying propaganda or explosives into enemy territory This wartime enterprise also helped to facilitate meteorological understandings of global atmospheric wind patterns, specifically the jet stream The program was about the Japanese FuGo balloon bombs that were used briefly during World War II in a largely unsuccessful attack on the United States How unsuccessful? And the bombs are held in place with the exact same mechanism as the sandbags And now, by the very same system, the bombs are the last to go And presumably, the balloon is now somewhere over North America ROBERT Oh, I see So it's a sandbag countdown 30, 29, 28, 4, 3, 2, 1 I hope I'm in Oregon ROSS COEN Right
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