Editing Jet stream (section)

===Unpowered aerial attack===
Near the end of [[World War II]], from late 1944 until early 1945, the Japanese [[Fu-Go balloon bomb]], a type of [[fire balloon]], was designed as a cheap weapon intended to make use of the jet stream over the [[Pacific Ocean]] to reach the west coast of [[Canada]] and the [[United States]]. Relatively ineffective as weapons, they were used in one of the few [[American Theater (1939–1945)#Fire balloon attacks|attacks on North America during World War II]], causing six deaths and a small amount of damage.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.faqs.org/docs/air/avfusen.html |title=The Fire Balloons |access-date=3 October 2009 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175214/http://www.faqs.org/docs/air/avfusen.html |url-status=live }}</ref> American scientists studying the balloons thought the Japanese might be preparing a biological attack.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=McPhee |first=John |date=29 January 1996|title=Balloons of War |magazine=The New Yorker|url=https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1996-01-29|access-date=27 January 2024}}</ref>