Statistics for History of the Atomic Age

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Year	Description	Answer	% Correct
1945	First city to be bombed in a nuclear war	Hiroshima	95%
1945	Second city to be bombed in a nuclear war	Nagasaki	91%
1942	U.S. project to develop nuclear weapons	Manhattan Project	89%
1932	The process of merging two light elements	Nuclear Fusion	84%
1938	The process of splitting a heavy element into two	Nuclear Fission	82%
1986	Soviet power plant that exploded	Chernobyl	81%
1945	Atomic element used in the first bomb	Uranium	80%
1962	Biggest crisis of the Cold War	Cuban Missile Crisis	79%
1945	Atomic element used in the second bomb	Plutonium	74%
1945	Codename of the first bomb	"Little Boy"	72%
1941	First nuclear war in history	World War II	71%
1945	Plane that dropped the first bomb	Enola Gay	70%
1967	Non-nuclear kitchen appliance based on radar	Microwave Oven	68%
1945	Codename of the second bomb	"Fat Man"	63%
2011	Japanese power plant struck by a tsunami	Fukushima	49%
1979	U.S. power plant that lost coolant	Three Mile Island	46%
1962	Meaning of the acronym "MAD"	Mutually Assured Destruction	44%
1983	Hypothetical climate change caused by bombs	Nuclear Winter	44%
1945	"I am become _____, the destroyer of worlds."	Death	43%
1964	Comedy film about MAD, by Stanley Kubrick	Dr. Strangelove	43%
1952	Hydrogen isotope with 1 proton and 1 neutron	Deuterium	28%
1945	First nuclear test (codename)	Trinity	22%
1979	Film about a nuclear meltdown, starring Jane Fonda	The China Syndrome	14%
1945	Plane that dropped the second bomb	Bockscar	13%
1958	Method of preserving food by exposure to X-rays	Irradiation	11%
1959	Film about waiting for fallout in post-WW3 Australia	On the Beach	8%