Eye in the Sky (2015)
Most of the missions intelligence was gathered through this remote control military tool and allowed for a missiles to be launched without someone being physically present.
What is a Drone?
The price of the United states 30 year massive nuclear modernization project.
What is $1.7 trillion?
Besides being effective, unmanned weapons are becoming essential on the battlefield because of this reason.
What is they are cheap?
The most common justification for nuclear weapons.
What is national security?
Each side in a war tries to impose this on the other while minimizing their own exposure to it.
What is risk?
This specific (popular) ethical thought experiment is mirrored in the main conflict of the film.
What is the Trolley Problem?
A Three prong strategic/military force structure (Hint it takes advantage of land based, sea-base, and air-based technology)
What is a nuclear triad?
The country last April that announced its largest military restructuring in almost a decade, with a new emphasis on building up technology-driven forces.
What is China?
The federal law that provides compensation for individuals who developed specific cancers or diseases due to exposure to radiation from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing.
What is RECA? (Radiation Exposure Compensation Act)
The Princeton University program, founded in 1974, meant to confront the nuclear threat worldwide by advancing nuclear arms control and ending the development and deployment of the world’s deadliest weapons.
What is the Program on Science and Global Security (SGS)?
These individuals must determine if the strike satisfies the Rules of Engagement (which define the circumstances, conditions, and limitations under which forces initiate or continue combat engagements)
What are legal advisors?
The name of the lab in New Mexico that made the world's first nuclear weapon.
(Hint: It's in the movie Oppenheimer)
What is Los Alamos?
The text argues that future wars will be dominated by these types of "increasingly autonomous" weapons.
What are algorithms?
A term that describes those who were exposed/still dealing with the radioactive fallout from US atmospheric nuclear tests.
What are Downwinders?
The global count of nuclear weapons today (there were about 60,000 nuclear weapons at the end of the Cold War).
What is $12,000?
The pilots refuse to fire until this specific military calculation is re-evaluated due to the girl's presence. What is the name of that calculation?
What is Collateral Damage Estimate? (which predicts and quantifies potential unintended injury, death, or damage to civilian persons or property during an attack.)
The project name that developed the first atomic weapons during World War II.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This German's new war fighting doctrine, that involved air bombings, and armored vehicles/tanks.
(Hint: It is also called The blitzkrieg)
What is Lightning War?
The core component of a nuclear weapon, that acts as the trigger for a nuclear explosion.
What is a plutonium pit?
The moral legitimacy of violence in war is grounded in this specific necessity.
What is self-defense?
To bypass legal roadblocks in initiating the strike, Colonel Powell demands a recalculation that would manipulate the CDE to fall below a specific percentage.
What is 50%?
The five states that have a total of 400 missiles buried under farmland.
What is Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, Montana North Dakota?
These are three reasons why the U.S. military's current purchasing process is failing to keep up with modern technology.
What are bureaucratic, risk-averse, and slow to adapt?
The rationale for rapid pit production.
What is the military fears the plutonium in old pits is aging, making weapons potentially unstable or ineffective?
The international agreement limiting the development and spread of the bomb and establishing a binding obligation to achieve nuclear disarmament.
What is the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons?