This is the location of the Manhattan Project led by Robert Oppenheimer.
What is Los Alamos, New Mexico?
100
This caused the public to be scared of nuclear power plants in the 1960s.
What is Chernobyl?
200
This is the most common fissile material found in nuclear weapons.
What is Plutonium-239?
200
This is the name of the Soviet Union's first nuclear weapon.
What is First Lightning (RDS-1)?
200
This country was a signer of the original Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, even though it wasn't part of the to main aggressors during the Cold War.
What is the United Kingdom?
300
This is the amount needed to sustain a fission reaction.
What is a critical mass?
300
This is the largest nuclear bomb ever to be exploded, done so by the Soviet Union in 1961, producing an explosion equivalent to 58 megatons of TNT.
What is Tsar Bomba?
300
The accident that caused a protest in Germany happened here.
What is Pennsylvania?
400
Going way back in time, he wrote the book "The World Set Free" in 1918, which was the first reference to nuclear weapons.
Who is H.G. Wells?
400
He is the lesser known creator of a manifesto among scientists that outlined the danger of nuclear weapons.
Who is Bertrand Russell?
400
Instead of challenging the Soviet Union to an arms race, president John F. Kennedy challenged the Soviet Union to a this race.
What is a peace race?
500
After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this was the next step in the evolution of nuclear weapons.
What is a boosted fission bomb?
500
This country obtained the technology to produce nuclear weapons with the help of the United States, but has not declared to the world that it possesses them.
What is Israel?
500
This wasn't covered by the original Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and was one of the downsides to it.