History
The 2 cities to have ever experienced a nuclear attack
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Scientific team lead of the Manhattan Project
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
An impact of nuclear weapons that causes lowered resistance to infections, which could lead to epidemics
What is radiation?
Consists of four treaties and three additional protocols that establish international legal standards for humanitarian treatment in war
What is the Geneva Convention?
The purpose for IHL
restricting military potential to the amount necessary to achieve the aim of the conflict, and can only be to weaken the military potential of the enemy.
The first country to have had, but then get rid of its nuclear weapons program
What is South Africa?
The physicist who first warned FDR of the attempts made by Nazis to make a nuclear bomb
Who is Albert Einstein?
Nuclear weapons cause degradation of this part of the atmosphere
What is the ozone layer?
The ban of all Nuclear Weapon Tests tests except for those conducted underground (in the US, UK, and Russia)
What is the Partial Test Ban Treaty?
A homemade plan used to describe actions to be taken in the event of a disaster
What is a family disaster plan?
An international incident involving the US and Soviet Union following the discovery of nuclear missile sites by a U-2 spy plane
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This man was the creator of contemporary IHL
Who is Henry Dunant?
The length of time that radiation can still be present after a nuke
What is 1-5 years?
A 2017 treaty to set timelines for completely eliminating nuclear weapons in countries that possess them
What is the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons?
To decontaminate after facing exposure to radiation, you should do the following
What is take a shower?
A term for the proliferation of nuclear weapons in smaller countries outside of the US-Soviet-Chinese tensions
What is the Second Nuclear Age?
A Japanese girl affected by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who made over 1,000 origami cranes before her death
Who is Sadako Sasaki?
A gigantic fire that consumes a lot of oxygen and creates fast winds
What is a firestorm?
A plan proposed by the United States in the aftermath of WWII to decommission nuclear weapons and share fission knowledge internationally
What is the Baruch Plan?
The IHL principle that requires military actions to be performed for a tactical goal
What is military necessity?
A document published by famous intellectuals and physicists that sought to educate people about the consequences of nuclear war
What is the Russell-Einstein Manifesto?
A Pakistani nuclear physicist who proliferated nuclear weapons knowledge and materials to Pakistan, Libya, Iran, and North Korea
Who is A. Q. Khan?
The onset of overpressure that causes the most damage to structures following a nuclear blast
What is a blast wave?
1950s and 60s marches in England against nuclear weapons
What are the Aldermaston Marches?
The IHL principle that emphasizes separating civilian targets from military ones
What is distinction?