Join host Raven Thorne as she unravels Japan's balloon bomb campaign—nine thousand paper spheres sent across the Pacific on jet streams during World War II. Explore the schoolgirls who assembled them, the atmospheric science that guided them, and tragic American deaths kept classified for decades. How silence became as deadly as the bombs themselves.

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Raven Thorne examines Japanese schoolgirls conscripted to build Fu-Go balloon bombs in WWII, assembling weapons with mulberry paper and konnyaku paste, unaware they would cross the Pacific and kill six Americans in Oregon—a weapon built on enforced ignorance.

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Raven Thorne examines the 1945 U.S. government blackout on Japanese balloon bombs—a strategic triumph that ended Japan's campaign but left six Oregon civilians dead. A meditation on wartime secrecy's life-saving success and its fatal blind spot.

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Host Raven Thorne examines Japan's Fu-Go balloon bombs—the world's first intercontinental weapon. In 1944, Japan launched 9,300 paper balloons into the jet stream, crossing 6,000 miles to North America. These autonomous weapons killed six people in Oregon and disrupted the Manhattan Project, introducing a new era of untargeted warfare.

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