| Year | Description | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | First city to be bombed in a nuclear war | Hiroshima | 95%
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| 1945 | Second city to be bombed in a nuclear war | Nagasaki | 91%
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| 1942 | U.S. project to develop nuclear weapons | Manhattan Project | 89%
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| 1932 | The process of merging two light elements | Nuclear Fusion | 84%
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| 1938 | The process of splitting a heavy element into two | Nuclear Fission | 82%
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| 1986 | Soviet power plant that exploded | Chernobyl | 81%
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| 1945 | Atomic element used in the first bomb | Uranium | 80%
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| 1962 | Biggest crisis of the Cold War | Cuban Missile Crisis | 79%
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| 1945 | Atomic element used in the second bomb | Plutonium | 74%
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| 1945 | Codename of the first bomb | "Little Boy" | 72%
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| 1941 | First nuclear war in history | World War II | 71%
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| 1945 | Plane that dropped the first bomb | Enola Gay | 70%
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| 1967 | Non-nuclear kitchen appliance based on radar | Microwave Oven | 68%
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| 1945 | Codename of the second bomb | "Fat Man" | 63%
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| 2011 | Japanese power plant struck by a tsunami | Fukushima | 49%
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| 1979 | U.S. power plant that lost coolant | Three Mile Island | 46%
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| 1945 | "I am become _____, the destroyer of worlds." | Death | 45%
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| 1962 | Meaning of the acronym "MAD" | Mutually Assured Destruction | 45%
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| 1964 | Comedy film about MAD, by Stanley Kubrick | Dr. Strangelove | 44%
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| 1983 | Hypothetical climate change caused by bombs | Nuclear Winter | 44%
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| 1952 | Hydrogen isotope with 1 proton and 1 neutron | Deuterium | 28%
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| 1945 | First nuclear test (codename) | Trinity | 22%
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| 1979 | Film about a nuclear meltdown, starring Jane Fonda | The China Syndrome | 14%
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| 1945 | Plane that dropped the second bomb | Bockscar | 13%
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| 1958 | Method of preserving food by exposure to X-rays | Irradiation | 10%
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| 1959 | Film about waiting for fallout in post-WW3 Australia | On the Beach | 8%
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