[kilgnad]

You don't need a simulation. This has been done successfully from Japan with bombs hitched to it.

People were killed.

https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/ww2-japans-balloon-bom...

The key is to use high altitude balloons to catch the Jetstream and a system of timed weights for release.

[jerkstate]

From the article:

> The news media cooperated with the military

Same as it ever was.