History of Nuclear Weapons - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
First country to possess nuclear weapons	United States	100%
The only country to be attacked by nuclear weapons	Japan	99%
Cities which were attacked	Hiroshima	98%
Cities which were attacked	Nagasaki	97%
What the A stands for in "A-Bomb"	Atomic	94%
What the H stands for in "H-Bomb"	Hydrogen	92%
Name of the U.S. project to develop nuclear weapons	The {Manhattan} Project	83%
Elements which provided the fissile material used in those bombs	Uranium	81%
Names of the bombs which were dropped	Little Boy	77%
Cloud of dust and debris that rises from an extremely large explosion,such as one from a nuclear weapon	{Mushroom} cloud	77%
Scientists who wrote a letter to FDR in 1939, warning him that Germansmight develop nuclear weapons (name either)	Leo Szilard /Albert Einstein	72%
Scientist referred to as the "father of the atomic bomb"	J. Robert Oppenheimer	71%
Names of the bombs which were dropped	Fat Man	66%
Elements which provided the fissile material used in those bombs	Plutonium	66%
The most powerful bomb ever tested	{Tsar} Bomba	59%
Famous quote from the above, on the occasion of the firstsuccessful nuclear bomb test	Now I am become {Death},the destroyer of worlds	56%
Explosive yield of that bomb	50 {Megaton}s	55%
Name of the plane which dropped the first of those bombs	Enola Gay	52%
Four letter term for a missile capable of delivering nuclear weaponsto a different continent	ICBM	52%
Term for the briefcase which holds the device that would allowthe U.S. President to authorize a nuclear attack	Nuclear {football}	35%

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