The Forties - A Decade of Intense World Events

Events	Technology	Significant UFO events
Holocaust	radar	Battle of L.A. 1942
End of World War II	atomic weapons	Quadacanal 1942 (see nicap)
United Nations establish 1945	ballistic missiles	Tokyo Japan (Fireball)
Hiroshima/Nagasaki (Atomic Bombs dropped) 1945	jet aircraft	Kenneth Arnold 1947
Israel becomes a sovereign state in 1947/48	microwave ovens	Roswell 1947
Arab-Israeli war 1948	velcro	Project Sign initiated 1948
NATO established 1949	tupperware	Green Fireballs 1948
Greek and Chinese Civil Wars	Quantum and Nuclear Physics	Project Sign statement ET 1949
National Security Act established 1947	Cryptography
NSA (AFSA) 1947 (officially in 1952)