We are recovering from the COVID-19 epidemic, which could have been manufactured in a Wuhan laboratory, and now a balloon from China is allowed to drift freely over our country. Has anyone thought of the dangerous precedent this is setting? As innocuous as a spy balloon may be, a possible bioweapons attack from this balloon could be a devastating first strike.
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Letter: Balloon could be attack
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