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| 1944 June 13 |
| | The first V-1 flying bombs (or doodlebugs) appear over London, numbering more than 2000 in two weeks | |
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| 1944 September 8 |
| | The first V-2 rocket lands on London, killing three people in Chiswick | |
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| 1944 October 25 |
| | Japanese pilots fly the first of World War II's suicide or kamikaze missions | |
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| 1945 March 9 |
| | Napalm, used to bomb a crowded part of Tokyo, creates a firestorm in which 80,000 die | |
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| 1945 April 12 |
| | A US destroyer is sunk by a baka, a rocket-propelled version of a kamikaze attack | |
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| 1945 July 16 |
| | US scientists succeed in exploding an atom bomb at Alamogordo, a test site in the New Mexican desert | |
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| 1945 August 6 |
| | An atom bomb is dropped on Hiroshima, destroying four square miles of the city and killing 80,000 people | |
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| 1945 August 9 |
| | A second atom bomb is dropped from a US plane, this time over Nagasaki | |
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| 1946 |
| | The first of about 20 US tests of atomic and hydrogen bombs is carried out on Bikini Atoll, in the Pacific | |
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| 1949 |
| | The first Soviet atomic bomb, called by the Americans Joe One, is successfully tested in Kazakhstan | |
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