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Question 1: ________ and authored many of the government press releases regarding the project and the bombings in Japan.
Technology during World War IIAerial warfareManhattan ProjectWorld War II

Question 2: [15] Indeed in spite of the argument that these weapons hastened the end of World War II commentators and politicians around the world have questioned the ________' rationale for having used them.
CanadaAlaskaPhilippinesUnited States

Question 3: The theoretical basis for this optimism is the science of ________, an international-relations discipline that predates nuclear technology.
Mutual assured destructionCold WarDeterrence theoryRonald Reagan

Question 4: [13] Two decades of the ________ in which the world had fretted about the possibility of nuclear annihilation also dampened optimism about the technology in general and led to increasing protests against its use.
Joseph StalinCold WarCentral Intelligence AgencyVietnam War

Question 5: By the ________ it had become apparent that the economic factors associated with nuclear energy were not so simple as previously believed and the environmental hazards posed by nuclear waste were not easy to solve.
197119721970s1976

Question 6: [9] Indeed ________ has been active in development and construction of nuclear power technology and there has been widespread discussion regarding new construction in governments around the world.
Province (China)ChinaReligion in ChinaTime in China

Question 7: Popular fiction such as the American films ________ and The Day After were almost uniformly pessimistic in their depictions of the technology.
The Baby Maker (film)The China SyndromeBright Lights, Big City (film)Perfect (film)

Question 8: Nuclear optimism can be applied in a number of different ways, particularly to the potential for using ________ for energy, or the potential for using nuclear weapons arsenals as means to avert war.
Nuclear powerUraniumNuclear reactor technologyNuclear power debate

Question 9: [14] A major motivation for this renewed interest has been primarily worries about a looming energy crisis and concerns about the environmental pollution and global warming caused by the current widespread use of ________.
Carbon sinkBiofuelFossil fuelCarbon tax

Question 10: The fact that during the ________ the Soviet Union and the United States never fought an active war despite open hostility and military build-up.
Vietnam WarCold WarJoseph StalinCentral Intelligence Agency
















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