A-Bomb's Creation
The Research and Development program, tasked with creating the first nuclear weapons, called?
What is The Manhattan Project
The scientific name for the explosive process that gives the A-Bomb it's immense destructive capabilities.
What is fission(fission Bomb) or Fusion(Thermonuclear)
The first president to ever authorize a nuclear strike.
Who is Harry S. Truman
The illness from which many Hiroshima & Nagasaki survivors soon died of
What is radiation poisoning
The total amount of countries that posses nuclear weapons today
What is 9 countries
The Director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, the facility actually tasked with building the bomb?
Who is Robert Oppenheimer
The material that an A-bomb utilizes to detonate
What is Uranium, Plutonium, or Hydrogen
The two cities that A-Bombs were used on during WWII.
What is Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The percentage of houses destroyed by the A-bomb in Hiroshima, both directly and indirectly
what is 90% of all structures
The country that posses the greatest amount of active service nuclear warheads
What is Russia
The test site on which the first nuclear bomb was ever detonated
What is Trinity Test Site
The height of the mushroom cloud produced by "little boy".
What is 40 thousand feet
The year the USSR successfully tested their own Atomic Bomb
What is 1949
The closest country to Japan, today, that has access to nuclear weapons
What is North Korea
The year the US conducted its last nuclear test
what is 1992
What was the destructive force of the Trinity Bomb, in tons of TNT?
What is 15-20 thousand tons of TNT
The radius of the destructive blast wave that destroyed many of the structures in Hiroshima
(in square miles)
what is five square miles
How many nuclear tests has the United States undergone since the bomb's creation?
What is over 1,000
The time it took for Japan's economy to begin to recover from WWII
What is 8-10 years
The treaty passed by the UN general assembly that banned further testing of nuclear weapons
What is the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
What was the original budget of the Manhattan Project?
What is $6,000
The percentage of uranium in Little Boy that actually fissioned
What is 1%-2% of the total uranium
The largest A-Bomb to ever be detonated
What is the Tsar Bomba
How many people in Hiroshima were killed instantly by the blast?
What is 60-80 thousand people
The event that arguably brought the US closest to nuclear war, post WWII
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis