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Question 1: Shot "Sedan" of Operation Storax on 6 July 1962 (yield of 104 kilotons), was an attempt at showing the feasibility of using nuclear weapons for "civilian" and "peaceful" purposes as part of ________.
Operation PlumbbobNevada Test SitePacific Proving GroundsOperation Plowshare

Question 2: test of an operational ballistic missile with a live nuclear warhead (yield of 600 kilotons), at ________.
Cocos (Keeling) IslandsNorfolk IslandChristmas IslandNew Caledonia

Question 3: The ________ series in July 1946, was the first postwar test series and one of the largest military operations in U.S.
Trinity (nuclear test)Pacific Proving GroundsAmchitkaOperation Crossroads

Question 4: Throughh the aid of brainpower acquired through ________ at the tail end of the European branch of World War II, the United States was able to embark on an ambitious program in rocketry.
Wernher von BraunOperation PaperclipArthur RudolphMittelwerk

Question 5: Many of the ________ natives have since suffered from birth defects and have received some compensation from the federal government.
TuvaluMarshall IslandsPalauVanuatu

Question 6: The same critics point out the fact that it is violating its own non-proliferation treaties in the pursuit of so-called "________".
Nuclear weapon yieldNuclear weapons testingNuclear bunker busterNuclear weapon

Question 7: What does the following picture show?

  Early weapons models, such as the "Fat Man" bomb, were extremely large and difficult to use.
  The U.S. conducted hundreds of nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site.
  Since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons have remained highly controversial and contentious objects in the forum of public debate.
  Early weapons models, such as the "Fat Man" bomb, were extremely large and difficult to use.

Question 8: ________
United States Air ForceUnited States NavyNuclear weapons and the United StatesUnited States and weapons of mass destruction

Question 9: This was the beginning of the ________, run as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), an agency under military control which was in charge of developing the first atomic weapons.
Manhattan ProjectAerial warfareWorld War IITechnology during World War II

Question 10: The two weapons killed approximately 250,000 Japanese civilians outright, and thousands more have died over the years from radiation sickness and related ________.
CarcinogenesisMetastasisChemotherapyCancer
















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