Statistics for History of Nuclear Weapons

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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	84%
Elements which provided the fissile material used in those bombs	Uranium	81%
Cloud of dust and debris that rises from an extremely large explosion, such as one from a nuclear weapon	{Mushroom} cloud	77%
Names of the bombs which were dropped	Little Boy	76%
Scientists who wrote a letter to FDR in 1939, warning him that Germans might develop nuclear weapons (name either)	Leo Szilard / Albert Einstein	72%
Scientist referred to as the "father of the atomic bomb"	J. Robert Oppenheimer	67%
Elements which provided the fissile material used in those bombs	Plutonium	67%
Names of the bombs which were dropped	Fat Man	65%
The most powerful bomb ever tested	{Tsar} Bomba	57%
Explosive yield of that bomb	50 {Megaton}s	56%
Name of the plane which dropped the first of those bombs	Enola Gay	54%
Famous quote from the above, on the occasion of the first successful nuclear bomb test	Now I am become {Death}, the destroyer of worlds	53%
Four letter term for a missile capable of delivering nuclear weapons to a different continent	ICBM	52%
Term for the briefcase which holds the device that would allow the U.S. President to authorize a nuclear attack	Nuclear {football}	36%