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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