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In August of 1939, he wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning that German scientists might be using new advances in physics to try to engineer a nuclear weapon.
Who is Albert Einstein?
The name of the top secret project to develop the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This country has the most nuclear weapons in the world and was the second country to obtain nuclear weapons.
What is Russia?
This treaty was signed in 1968, made effective in 1970. It aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
What is the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)?
This US President met who North Korea's Kim Jong-Un to discuss their nuclear program.
Who is President Trump?
In July of 1945 the first atomic bomb was detonated. The explosion generated a giant mushroom cloud crowned y a ball of fire that reached 30,000 feet into the air. This lead scientist later said of the event, "We knew the world would never be the same."
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
The name of the two cities that were bombed by the United States.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This country has the third highest number of nuclear weapons in the world?
What is France?
The number of countries that signed the NPT as nuclear weapons states. The two things these countries agreed to when they signed the NPT.
What is 5? These countries agreed to:
1. Take steps towards disarmament.
2. Never give the "know how" to another country.
The countries negotiated the agreement with Iran (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
What are US, UK, China, France, Russia, and Germany? (The P5 +1).
This U.S. President made the grave decision to use the atomic bomb. He would later say that it was an easy decision to use the new weapon.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
The United States dropped two bombs during World War II. What were the nicknames of these bombs?
What are "Little Boy" and "Fat Man"?
This country neither confirms or denies that it has nuclear weapons. It has not signed the NPT.
What is Israel?
The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) adopted in 1996 bans all nuclear explosions on earth by any country on the planet. Since its adoption, three countries have gone against the treaty and conducted nuclear tests. Identify the three countries.
India, Pakistan, and North Korea
Although 183 countries have signed the treaty, it has only been ratified, or made law, in 164 countries. In order for it to become universal international law, eight countries that are “nuclear technology holder countries” must ratify the treaty; one of these countries is the United States of America.
This US President hopes to revive the Iran Nuclear Deal.
Who is Biden?
The U.S. president during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Soviets placed nuclear missiles in Cuba. This president demanded that the missiles be removed. After a very tense 13 days the Soviets backed down.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
What is MAD? Explain.
Mutually Assured Destruction. Neither side dares to strike the other for fear of being wiped out in return.
Experts worry that two smaller nuclear powers, like these two longtime enemies, could drag other countries into a larger conflict.
What are India and Pakistan?
The name of the agency created in 1957 to encourage and assist with research and development as well as the practical application of atomic energy for "peaceful uses" throughout the world. The organization also inspects countries if necessary to verify their compliance with nuclear treaties.
What is the International Atomic Energy Agency?
North Korea's status with regards to the NPT.
What is they signed it and then withdrew from the treaty?
Two part question:
The president that pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal and the year he did so.
The president who entered the United States into the Iran nuclear deal and the year he did so.
Who is Donald Trump (2018) and Barack Obama (2015)?
On August 15, 1945 this man announced his country's surrender ending WWII. Name the man and the country.
Who is Emperor Hirohito? What is Japan?
The number of countries that have nuclear weapons. Identify the countries.
What are nine? What are US, UK, China, France, Russia, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel?
The current status of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Is it in force yet?
It prohibits nations from developing, testing, producing, manufacturing, transferring, possessing, stockpiling, using or threatening to use nuclear weapons, or allowing nuclear weapons to be stationed on their territory. It also prohibits them from assisting, encouraging or inducing anyone to engage in any of these activities.
A nation that possesses nuclear weapons may join the treaty, so long as it agrees to destroy them in accordance with a legally binding, time-bound plan. Similarly, a nation that hosts another nation’s nuclear weapons on its territory may join, so long as it agrees to remove them by a specified deadline.
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons opened for signature at the United Nations in New York on 20 September 2017 and entered into force on 22 January 2021.
There are currently 86 signatories and 59 states parties.
Identify three nuclear weapons states that have not signed the NPT.
What are India, Pakistan, and Israel?