Nuclear Weapons quiz
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What explosive is used to measure nuclear blast power?
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Which place gave the US atomic bomb project its name?
Answer: Manhattan
Why: The project's first headquarters was at 270 Broadway in Manhattan, but the bombs were designed at Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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Where does the blast of a dirty bomb come from?
Answer: Ordinary explosives
Why: A nuclear bomb's explosion is millions of times more powerful than the blast of a dirty bomb.
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What share of Little Boy's uranium split?
Answer: About 1%
Why: That sliver of fission turned only about 0.7 grams of mass into the energy of the blast.
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How many days apart were the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings?
Answer: Three
Why: Japan announced its surrender on 15 August 1945, just six days after Nagasaki was bombed.
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Which country dismantled the nuclear bombs it had built?
Answer: South Africa
Why: South Africa had finished six bombs, with a seventh under way, when it ended the program in 1989.
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Where did a 1962 nuclear blast in space knock out streetlights?
Answer: Hawaii
Why: The damage came from the blast's electromagnetic pulse, still felt about 1,450 km from the detonation point.
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