Nuclear Science
This type of bomb was tested underground in Mississippi in 1964
What is an atomic bomb?
This treaty limited nuclear testing to underground locations
What is the Limited Test Ban Treaty?
The number of people who filed damage claims after the nuclear tests
What is 400?
These instruments were used to detect nuclear tests
What are seismographs?
The decade when these Mississippi nuclear tests occurred
What is the 1960s?
The power of the first Mississippi nuclear test was 5.35.3 kilotons, which was this many times smaller than the Hiroshima bomb
What is approximately 66 times smaller?
This political figure was eager to host nuclear testing despite being a segregationist
Who is Governor Ross Barnett?
The amount paid to evacuated residents per person
What is $10 for adults and $5 for children?
This scientific technique involved creating an underground cavity to potentially hide nuclear test signals
What is decoupling?
The total number of nuclear tests conducted by the U.S. during the Cold War
What is more than 1,000?
This physicist theorized that underground nuclear tests could potentially be "muffled" from detection
The primary motivation for these nuclear tests was to detect potential cheating in nuclear test agreements with this country
What is the Soviet Union?
A local resident described the ground movement during the test as feeling like this
What is being in a boat?
The maximum kiloton limit established for future underground tests
What is 150 kilotons?
Most U.S. nuclear tests prior to Mississippi were conducted in these locations
What are the Nevada desert and Pacific islands?
The two nuclear tests in Mississippi were code-named this
This global crisis shortly preceded the Limited Test Ban Treaty
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
One local resident's house was completely destroyed by the test, whose name was this
Who is Horace Burge?
Scientists tested surrounding trees for this potential radioactive contamination
What is radioactivity?
The year the second, smaller nuclear test was conducted in Mississippi
What is 1966?
This specific geological formation made Mississippi an ideal testing location
What is a salt dome?
The nuclear testing was part of a larger strategy to make it harder for countries to join the "nuclear weapons club"
What is nuclear nonproliferation?
The long-term health concern locals had after the tests
What is cancer?
A modern life-saving application developed from these nuclear test monitoring techniques
What is estimating tsunami risks?
The current status of nuclear testing globally, according to the article
What is that nearly 200 countries have joined a treaty against future tests?