In general
The center of the atom
What is the nucleus?
This element along with Plutonium is used as nuclear fuel.
What is Uranium?
Name of the bomb that hit Hiroshima on August 6th 1945.
What was "Little Boy"?
Name for the people living down wind from nuclear test sites.
What are the Downwinders?
Serious, often incurable illness caused by radiation.
What is cancer?
The Manhattan Project was begun out of fear that this country would develop nuclear weapons first... and use them!
What is Germany?
The name of the first succesful atomic bomb detonation test on July 16th 1945 in a remote desert in New Mexico.
What is the Trinity test?
Name of the bomb that hit Nagasaki on August 9th 1945.
What was "Fat Man"?
Radiation that can cause people and object to emit radiation as well.
What is radioactivity?
The number of bombs developed during the Manhattan Project.
What is four?
Japanese kamikaze pilots attacked this American city and naval base, forcing the US into the 2nd World War.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Shape of the cloud that follows the detonation of an atom bomb.
What is a mushroom cloud?
This type of nuclear weapon assembly method was developed during the Manhattan project and contains Uranium.
What is the Gun-Type Assembly Method?
Name of radioactive debris and dust that drops from the sky after a nuclear bomb is detonated.
What is fallout?
The act of firing a single neutron into an atom, releasing one or more neutrons from the atom.
What is splitting the atom?
The process by which an atom's nucleus is split into smaller particles; results in the release of neutrons and lots of energy in a chain reaction.
What is fission?
After witnessing the first atom bomb test, this famous scientist responsible for its creation uttered the following words: ""Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
Who was Richard Oppenheimer?
This type of nuclear weapon assembly method was developed during the Manhattan project and contains Plutonium.
What was the Implosion Assembly Method?
Soldiers often required to watch the blasts for training purposes and enter contaminated areas in order to clean radioactive test objects.
What are atomic veterans?
What holds a nucleus together.
What is strong force?
Scientist who defined the atomic structure as ressembling planets in orbit around a sun.
Who was Niels Bohr?
The ultimatum delivered to Japan to form a new, democratic and peaceful government or face “prompt and utter destruction.”
What was the Potsdam Conference?
The amount of material at which a neutron produced by a fission process will, on average, create another fission event.
What is critical mass?
Nickname given to the May 19th detonation that caused larger than expected amount of fallout.
What was Dirty Harry?
The scientist who invented and patented the atomic bomb so no one else could make it.
Who was Leo Szilard?