NUCLEAR WEAPONS

(e.g., Which scientist alerted President Roosevelt about a potential atomic bomb? Answer: Albert Einstein.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. Which president made the decision to use the bomb in World War II?

2. On which Japanese city was the atomic bomb first dropped?

3. What was the name of the first bomb to be dropped on a city?

GRADUATE LEVEL

4. What was the name of the U.S. program to develop an atomic bomb?

5. Which scientist was the principal leader of the project?

6. Where was the first atomic test bomb exploded?

PH.D. LEVEL

7. Name the only country to develop an atomic bomb and voluntarily relinquish it.

Answers: 1. Harry S. Truman. 2. Hiroshima. 3. Little Boy. 4. The Manhattan Project. 5. J. Robert Oppenheimer. 6. The New Mexico desert. 7. South Africa.

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