The atomic bomb is, arguably, the scariest weapon ever made by human hands. Its potential for destruction and long-lasting ruination of the environment are the stuff of nightmares. How much do you know about the mother of all bombs?
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What was the name of the secret project in the United States to develop an atomic bomb?
nuclear fission is a nuclear reaction or a radioactive decay process in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller, lighter nuclei. The energy that comes from this split give the bomb its power.
From the bombs dropped on Japan during WWII, which atomic bomb had more explosive power, Little Boy (Hiroshima) or Fat Man (Nagasaki)?
While Little Boy had a yield of 15,000 tons of TNT, Fat Man had a yield of 21,000.
Fat Man
Little Boy
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What scientist and leader of the atomic bomb research team is considered the father of the atomic bomb?
Niels Bohr
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Enrico Fermi
Albert Einstein
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True or False: The designers of the first atomic bomb worried that testing it might possibly ignite the atmosphere and kill everything on earth, but they went ahead and detonated it anyway.
They viewed the risk as very small, but there was still a chance...
True
False
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What was the name of the B29 bomber which dropped the first atomic bomb?
Hurricane
Enola Gay
Mustang
Spirit of St. Louis
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Where was the first atomic bomb built?
The Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory was chosen in part because the location was remote and hard to get to.
What was the name of the biggest atomic bomb ever detonated?
Made by Russia, it had the equivalent of 50,000 tons of TNT, but it had the potential to have 100,000. It was lowered on purpose.
Fat Ivan
Mega-Bomb
Tsar Bomba
Trident
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