John Lisle

Gun control.

Do you have a lot of nostalgia for the pre-internet days?

Because I don't remember it that well.

Yeah.

This is a weird transition, but you said psychological hail.

It made me think of this project during World War II the OSS did called the Bat Bomb.

Are you familiar with that?

No.

It just made me think of these things kind of raining down.

But I write about this in the Dirty Tricks Department, but...

During World War II, there was this concept of how can we better target cities or buildings with our incendiary explosives?

We can drop bombs, but, I mean, those aren't targeted.

They're just going to fall where they fall.

And if the winds go in the wrong way, they're not even going to hit the target that we want them to.

So this guy named Little Adams, he was working with the OSS.

He had the idea.

He had just gone to Carlsbad Caverns.

What if we get bats and we attach napalm to them and then we release these over Japanese cities?

The bats are going to roost into the buildings in these cities and then we can have the napalm time delayed so that it'll explode after a certain amount of time that we release them and it'll set fires to all these buildings.

So we have like targeted incendiaries instead of just random bombs falling.