Guess the Weapon
The most destructive weapon that has ever been created
Hydrogen Bomb
True or False: those hit by the explosion's air-blast effects from a distance may have ruptured ear drums or lungs
True
Who was the president of the United States and who was the ruler of the Soviet Union during the Nuclear Arms Race?
Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin
True or False: The Cuban Missile Crisis almost made the US and USSR go to war.
True
What were the two main countries involved in the Nuclear Arms Race?
United States and the Soviet Union
The type of bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States
Atomic Bomb
Where would ALL nuclear tests have to be conducted after the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty?
Underground
What did Harry Truman promote?
The development of nuclear weapons
How long did the Cuban Missile Crisis last? (SECRET WEAPON)
13 days
When did the Nuclear Arms Race occur? (be specific)
Late 1940s through early 1950s
The type of warhead primarily used to transport nuclear weapons
ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile)
What three nations signed the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty?
United States, Soviet Union, Great Britain
How did Harry Truman react to the Soviet Union dropping its first atomic bomb? (SECRET WEAPON)
He announced that the U.S. would build a hydrogen bomb
How far away is Cuba from the US?
90 miles
When did the Soviet Union drop its first atomic bomb?
1949
The type of weapon that explodes with a yield of 10,000 kilotons of TNT
Hydrogen Bomb
What are two effects radiation can have on the human body? (SECRET WEAPON)
Birth defects and cancer
What did Stalin create to follow the military activity of rival countries?
He created an espionage program
Why did the Soviet Union station nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba?
The US stationed nuclear weapons in Turkey, which lay next to the Soviet Union
What was the ultimate goal of both countries? (SECRET WEAPON)
To outshine the other by building more powerful weapons
Two weapons that get their explosive power from a sudden release of energy that is developed when the nuclei is split (SECRET WEAPON)
Atomic Bomb and Hydrogen Bomb
What did SALT stand for?
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
What was the name of the first Soviet nuclear weapon?
"First Lightning"
As a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis, where were the two places that the "hotline system" was set up?
Washington D.C. and Moscow
What is deterrence?
A policy that said that huge supplies of weapons on both sides prevented war with the belief that neither side would launch an attack knowing that the other side would strike back