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Bombay-Uran Trunk Oil Pipeline
The Bombay-Uran Trunk Oil Pipeline is a retired Indian subsea crude oil pipeline, 203 km long, that carried crude from the Bombay High field to Uran near Mumbai from 1979.
Bombe
The bombe, also known as the Turing Bombe, was an electro-mechanical machine designed by Alan Turing that found German Enigma keys during the Second World War.
Bomber
A bomber, also called a bomber plane, is a combat aircraft designed to deliver bombs, missiles, or nuclear weapons, typically with long range for strategic missions.
Bomber B
Bomber B was a 1939 German Air Ministry program for a twin-engined medium bomber to replace the Ju 88 and He 111, canceled in 1943 when its new engines never matured.
Bomberman
Bomberman (Bomber Man, Dynablaster) is Hudson Soft's grid-based bomb-placement action-puzzle franchise, begun as a 1980 tech demo, famous for plus-shaped blasts, chain reactions, and multiplayer up to 64 players, now owned by Konami with 70+ titles.
Bomberman (ボンバーマン) (1985 video game)
Bomberman (ボンバーマン) is a single-player maze action game developed by Hudson Soft for the Famicom, released in Japan in 1985; the player bombs through 50 floors to find hidden exits.
Bomberman Jetters (ボンバーマンジェッターズ)
Bomberman Jetters (ボンバーマンジェッターズ) is a 52-episode TV Tokyo anime (2002–2003) by Studio Deen based on Hudson's Bomberman, following apprentice Bomberman Shirobon of the Jetters against the Hige-Hige Band, with GBA and console game adaptations.
Bombers
Bombers is a 2019 ZEE5 Original Hindi sports drama web series about Chandannagar football club Bombers FC, starring Varun Mitra, Ranvir Shorey, Aahana Kumra, and Anup Soni; not the 1998 History documentary on bomber aircraft.
Bombesin
Bombesin is a 14-amino-acid peptide isolated from the skin of the European fire-bellied toad Bombina bombina in 1971 by pharmacologist Vittorio Erspamer, now the standard scaffold for imaging GRP-receptor-expressing tumors.
Bombieri–Vinogradov theorem
A 1965 theorem of Enrico Bombieri and A. I. Vinogradov showing primes are well distributed in arithmetic progressions on average over moduli up to about the square root.
Bombina
Bombina (铃蟾属), the fire-bellied toads, is a genus of seven aquatic toad species in Bombinatoridae ranging from Europe and Türkiye to China, Korea, and Vietnam, known for red or orange warning undersides, toxic skin secretions, and the Unken Reflex.
Bombing of Berlin in World War II
The Bombing of Berlin in World War II was an Allied air campaign against Nazi Germany's capital from 1940 to 1945. The largest raid occurred on March 18, 1945.
Bombing of Chongqing
The Bombing of Chongqing, known in China as the Chongqing Great Bombing (重庆大轰炸), was a Japanese strategic bombing campaign against China's wartime capital from 1938 to 1943 that killed more than 23,000 people.
Bombing of Darwin
The Bombing of Darwin: Japanese air attack on Darwin, Northern Territory, on 19 February 1942, the first on mainland Australia; 188 carrier and 54 land-based aircraft, about 250 killed, first of 64 Darwin raids ending 12 November 1943.
Bombing of Dresden in World War II
The bombing of Dresden, or Dresden firebombing, was a series of RAF and USAAF air raids on Dresden, Germany, from 13 to 15 February 1945, killing about 25,000 people.
Bombing of Guernica
The Bombing of Guernica (Gernika): 26 April 1937 aerial attack by Nazi Germany's Condor Legion and Italy's Aviazione Legionaria on a Basque market town in Franco's service, destroying most of it, inspiring Picasso's painting, and followed by decades of denial.
Bombing of Hamburg in World War II
The bombing of Hamburg in World War II culminated in Operation Gomorrah of July 1943, a British and American air campaign that created the war's first large firestorm.
Bombing of Kobe
The bombing of Kobe (神戸空襲) was the 1945 series of B-29 air attacks by the United States on the Japanese port city of Kobe, including five major raids.
Bombing of Kure
The bombing of Kure was a series of 1945 Allied air attacks that destroyed the Imperial Japanese Navy's surviving warships at its Kure Naval Base near Hiroshima.
Bombing of Milan in World War II
The bombing of Milan in World War II: Allied air attacks on Italy's industrial hub from June 1940 to 1944, peaking with RAF raids in August 1943 and the Gorla school massacre of 184 children in October 1944.
Bombing of Nagoya
The bombing of Nagoya (名古屋空襲) is the collective name for 63 American air raids on Nagoya, Japan, from 1942 to 1945, killing nearly 8,000 people.
Bombing of North Korea
The bombing of North Korea was a sustained US and UN air campaign during the Korean War, 1950 to 1953, that destroyed most North Korean cities and industry.
Bombing of Osaka
The bombing of Osaka (大阪大空襲), the great Osaka air raids, was the American strategic bombing campaign against Osaka, Japan's leading industrial center after Tokyo, in 1945.
Bombing of Plaza de Mayo
The bombing of Plaza de Mayo (Bombardeo de la Plaza de Mayo) was a 1955 air attack on Buenos Aires that killed more than 300 people in an attempt to overthrow President Perón.
Bombing of Pyongyang
The bombing of Pyongyang was the sustained US and UN air campaign against North Korea's capital during the Korean War (1950–1953), starting with B-29 strikes on June 29, 1950.
Bombing of Sinuiju
The bombing of Sinuiju was a United States Air Force fire-bombing attack on the North Korean border city of Sinuiju on 8 November 1950, during the Korean War.
Bombing of Tokyo
Bombing of Tokyo (東京大空襲, Great Tokyo Air Raid): US firebombing of Japan's capital in 1945. Operation Meetinghouse, March 9-10, 1945, over 300 B-29s burned 16 square miles, killed over 100,000, left 1 million homeless; deadliest air raid in history, exceeding Nagasaki.
Bombing of Tokyo (10 March 1945)
Operation Meetinghouse (東京大空襲), the US B-29 firebombing of Tokyo on 9–10 March 1945: 279 bombers dropped 1,665 tons of napalm incendiaries, burning 16 square miles, killing about 100,000, and leaving 1 million homeless in the deadliest single air raid in history.
Bombing of Warsaw in World War II
German air attacks on Warsaw in September 1939, starting 1 September and peaking in the 25 September raid with 560 tons of bombs and about 25,000 dead, ending in the city's capitulation on 28 September 1939.
Bombings in Sweden
Bombings in Sweden (sprängningar): gang-linked explosive attacks against homes and vehicles, prosecuted as publicly dangerous destruction; record 159 detonations in 2025, falling to 76 in January–September 2026.