Nuclear and Chemical Weapons
What was the most built missile during the Cold War?
A - ICBM’s
B - Nuclear Warheads
C - ABM’s
D - MIRV’s
What are ICBM’s?
What country dumped radioactive waste into the sea for decades, after denying it multiple times?
A - U.S.
B - China
C - North Korea
D - USSR
What is the USSR?
This flammable and jelly-like substance was used heavily during the Vietnam War. It did irreparable damage to the environment but also to the human/animal populations in and around the country of Vietnam.
A - Gel Fire
B - Napalm
C - Napine
D - Flame Jelly
What is Napalm?
In 1979, the US and USSR signed for a UN Convention to address this issue about long-range, trans-boundary environmental predicament for the first time. What was this issue?
A - Environmental Disasters
B - Clean Oceans
C - Wildlife protection
D - Pollution
What is pollution?
What is the name of the location in the Soviet Union (Modern-day Kazakhstan) where as many 400 nuclear tests were performed, causing the area to be uninhabitable.
A - The Square
B - The Hexagon
C - The Octagon
D - The Polygon
What is The Polygon?
Where did the United States test the most nuclear warheads?
A - Bikini Atoll
B - Enewetak Atoll
C - Nevada
D - Bikini Bottom
What is Nevada?
During the détente period, an air pollution monitoring network was proposed for Europe. What was this called?
A - European Air Quality Act
B - European-Wide Monitoring Program
C - International Air Pollution Solution
D - Norwegian Pollution Monitoring Program
What is the European-Wide Monitoring Program?
According to a US government study, an estimated 80,000 people who lived and were born in the US in the past 50 years have contracted cancer due to nuclear tests carried out. How many of those turned out to be fatal?
A - 30,000
B - 56,000
C - 20,000
D - 15,000
D - 15,000
The Partial Nuclear Test Ban was signed in August and October of 1963. This treaty banned all above-ground testing from underwater testing to space testing. Which countries ratified this treaty?
A - USSR Only
B - US & UK
C - US, USSR, & UK
D - US Only
What is the U.S, USSR, and UK
The environmental movement in West Germany during the early 1980s was focused on mainly:
A ozone restoration
B water pollution
C Wildlife protection
D soil recovery
What is wildlife protection?
What was the most common chemical weapon during the Cold War?
A - Choking Agents
B - Incapacents
C - Herbicides
D- Riot Control Agents
What are Riot Control Agents?
Thousands of miles away from nuclear bomb testing sites, radioactivity levels have found to be high. What weather phenomenons are associated with high radioactivity levels?
A - thicker clouds & more rainfall
B - earthquakes & more rainfall
C - more rainfall & rainbows
D - tornadoes & more rainfall
What are thicker clouds and more rainfall?
Agent Orange was a herbicide used by the US military in the 1960s and 1970s during the Vietnam War to rid of thick foliage in heavy forested areas, which was concerned to be hiding Viet Cong. The chemical has caused many birth defects, cancers, and miscarriages. What other health issues were caused by this chemical?
A- Type 1 Diabetes
B- Parkinson’s Disease
C- Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease
D- Early Onset Dementia
What is Parkinson’s Disease?
In 1969, the Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire due to an immense amount of pollutants found in the water. Due to this fire, many laws and acts were created to prevent this from happening again. What were the two laws that came from this?
A - Clean Waters Act & Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
B - The Paris Accord Agreement & Clean Air Act
C - No More Dirty Water Act & Translucent Water Agreement
D - Clear Waters Act & Great Ponds Water Quality Agreement
What is the Clean Waters Act & Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement?
While the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention was meant to prohibit the creation of Biological Weapons in the countries of the United States, the UK, and the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union violated this agreement by continuing to fund research and development of biological warfare elements. What is the name of these four projects?
A - Project W, Project X, Project Y, and Project Z
B - Project Bonfire, Project Factor, Chimera Project and Project Ekologiya
C - Project Soviet, Project Union, C Project, and Project Gore
D - Project Whale, Project Sea, Project 7, Project Kite
B - Project Bonfire, Project Factor, Chimera Project and Project Ekologiya
What country tested the most nuclear warheads?
U.S. with 1032
From 1943 to 1987, nuclear scientists generated over fifty million gallons of waste to create fuel at Hanford, Washington. In this time, the waste was stored underground in soil disposal sites. Unfortunately, the waste buildup was too much, and it spilled into the Columbia River. How much money is expected to be spent on cleaning up this disaster?
100 billion dollars
This insecticide was used heavily in the United States during the early stages of the Cold War. From the 1940s to the 1960s, it was used until scientists found the harmful effects of it.
DDT
In 1987, the US signed a worldwide treaty to protect and save the ozone layer. Over the next few decades, 197 countries also signed the treaty. What was this protocol named?
HINT - NAMED FOR THE CITY WHERE IT WAS CREATED IN CANADA.
The Montreal Protocol
In the 1960s, the US used test simulations to train their military. In 1983, one test simulation spooked the KGB and the Soviet Union and caused them to believe a nuclear attack was imminent. What was the name of the simulation?
HINT: Think of a capable bow and arrow…
Able Archer
What are the Marshall Islands?
Atomic testing sites made up of islands where the U.S. has tested nuclear weapons.
After a nuclear explosion, debris and soil mix with radionuclides and are sent up into the air then falls back down to Earth. What is this called?
What is fallout?
The land where the former Iron Curtain used to stand is now being used to sustain and conserve nature throughout Europe. What is this strip of land called?
European Green Belt
In 1959, the Antarctic Treaty System was signed by 12 countries due to international relations reasons. These countries include the United States and the Soviet Union. What was the goal of this treaty?
A - To split Antarctica up for land
B - To end militarism/territorialism in Antarctica
C - To gain resources from Antarctica
D - To stop capitalism or communism from spreading to Antarctica
To end militarism/territorialism in Antarctica.
After the dissolution of the USSR, they still had many traces of dead satellites and space junk orbiting the Earth, especially of the nuclear-atomic kind. How many detectable particles of nuclear debris are left up in space?
HINT: It is bigger than 50,000
70,000 detectable particles