We're burning <ot>

[Tony Alfrey]

On Monday 10 June 2002 03:55 pm,Joel Hammer wrote:
> You may recall the Japanese in WW II tried to firebomb the USA
> Northwest by sending over incendiary ballons. I am not kidding.

While this is probably well-known now, during WWII, it was kept out of 
the newspapers and radio so that the Japanese would not know that they 
had been successful in their attempt.  The ballon/bomb combinations 
were designed to use the jetstream and were programmed and controlled 
by adjusting hydrogen pressure and releasing sandbags.  The only 
mainland American casualties of the war (except those of course caused 
by many accidents) were a family that came upon one of these things 
unexploded in the woods in Oregon.

>
> So, in a drought like this, setting fires might be a nice way to hurt
> the USA. But, please, don't give those tiny brains any bad ideas.
>
> Joel
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:26:24PM +0800, m.w.chang wrote:
> > surely "the attack would be unprecedental". Frankly, burning trees
> > and crops, inserting pests and parasites might be more effective
> > terrorist act than nuke and bio-tech stuffs...
> >
> > Net Llama! wrote:
> > > Yea, its similar all over the western US.  As of Friday there was
> > > a fire 35 miles north of downtown Los Angeles that was only 15%
> > > contained.
> >
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