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History of nuclear weapons: Quiz
  
  

Question 1: Because the threat of ________ was so awful, it was first thought that it might make any war of the future impossible.
Nuclear weaponNuclear proliferationNuclear warfareNuclear arms race

Question 2: Nuclear weapons are devices that possess enormous destructive potential derived from ________ or nuclear fusion reactions.
Ionizing radiationUraniumNuclear fissionPlutonium

Question 3: The crew of the Japanese fishing boat, Lucky Dragon 5, returned to port suffering from ________ and skin burns.
Radiation poisoningLead poisoningCarbon monoxide poisoningSpider bite

Question 4: Early delivery systems for nuclear devices were primarily bombers like the United States ________ and Convair B-36, and later the B-52 Stratofortress.
B-29 SuperfortressB-47 StratojetB-25 MitchellB-24 Liberator

Question 5: France had been heavily involved in nuclear research before ________ through the work of the Joliot-Curies.
Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War IISecond Sino-Japanese WarWorld War IISoviet occupations

Question 6: Secretary of State ________ was moved to comment, "We went eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow just blinked."
Dean RuskGeorge MarshallJohn Foster DullesAlexander Haig

Question 7: With the return of ________ to the presidency of France in 1958 the final decisions to build a bomb were taken, and a successful test took place in 1960.
Harry S. TrumanFrançois MitterrandCharles de GaulleGeorge Marshall

Question 8: Other Los Alamos spies—none of whom knew each other—included Theodore Hall and ________.
Alger HissKlaus FuchsJulius and Ethel RosenbergDavid Greenglass

Question 9: On August 6, 1945, a uranium-based weapon, "Little Boy", was let loose on the Japanese city of ________.
Fukuyama, HiroshimaHiroshimaKure, HiroshimaTokyo

Question 10: Most of the lost weapons were recovered, the Spanish device after three months' effort by the ________ and DSV Aluminaut.
Oceanic trenchHydrothermal ventBlack smokerDSV Alvin
















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