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Aerial bombardment began during [[World War I]] with the deployment by the [[Germany|Germans]] of the [[hydrogen]]-filled rigid [[airship]], or [[zeppelin]]. But not until [[World War II]] did such bombardment become a decisive factor in war. The decisiveness of the Allied bomber forces is due as much to the massive amounts of high-explosive and incendiary [[bomb]]s they dropped in Europe and in the Pacific as to the [[atomic bomb]] attacks on [[Hiroshima]] and [[Nagasaki]].

Aerial bombardment began during [[World War I]] with the deployment by the [[Germany|Germans]] of the [[hydrogen]]-filled rigid [[airship]], or [[zeppelin]]. But not until [[World War II]] did such bombardment become a decisive factor in war. The decisiveness of the Allied bomber forces is due as much to the massive amounts of high-explosive and incendiary [[bomb]]s they dropped in Europe and in the Pacific as to the [[atomic bomb]] attacks on [[Hiroshima]] and [[Nagasaki]].

Bombers--often armed with [[nuclear weapon]]s--formed part of the [[Strategic Nuclear Triad]] during the [[Cold War]], and always formed a key element of the firepower of the [[Strategic Air Command]].

Bombers—often armed with [[nuclear weapon]]s—formed part of the [[Strategic Nuclear Triad]] during the [[Cold War]], and always formed a key element of the firepower of the [[Strategic Air Command]].

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