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Nukes Trivia

Think you can tell a 'duck and cover' drill from a nuclear chain reaction? Prove you're the bomb!

EXAMPLE QUESTIONS

What two-word safety drill, popularized in 1950s civil defense campaigns, urged Americans to shield themselves from an atomic blast?

Duck and Cover

Which remote New Mexico location—codenamed Project Y and led by J. Robert Oppenheimer—served as the main research facility for the top-secret World War II atomic bomb project?

Los Alamos

Who directed the iconic 1964 Cold War satire Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb?

Stanley Kubrick

Which 1962 Cold War standoff brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war?

Cuban Missile Crisis

What was the codename of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945?

Little Boy