In some questions, more than one answer might be possible:
1. The first nuclear test bomb was exploded in New Mexico and was called:
a. The gadget
b. Trinity
c. The logos
2. The second, dropped on Hiroshima, was called:
a. Thin Man
b. Fat Man
c. Little Boy
3. The plane used to drop it was:
a. Bockscar
b. Enola Gay
c. Trinity
4. The third, dropped on Nagasaki, was called:
a. Thin Man
b. Fat Man
c. Little Boy
5. The plane used to drop it was:
a. Bockscar
b. Enola Gay
c. Trinity
6. The project used to develop the bomb was called:
a. Manhattan Transfer
b. Manhattan Project
c. Trinity
7. Which of these did not work on the project?
a. J. Robert Oppenheimer
b. Frank Oppenheimer
c. Werner von Braun
8. Which of these did not drop a bomb on a Japanese city?
a. Major James I. Hopkins, Jr.
b. Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr.
c. Major Charles W. Sweeney
9. Which of these was the original target?
a. Nagaoka
b. Hitachi
c. Kokura
10. Who said: "I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds?"
a. The Bhagavad Gita
b. Frank Oppenheimer
c. J. Robert Oppenheimer
Answers
1a, 2c, 3b, 4b, 5a, 6b, 7c, 8a, 9c, 10a,c
Wish these names were part of mankind's collective memory.
ReplyDeleteHmm I did not know (or did I forget?) that the first bomb was called the gadget. Live and learn
ReplyDeleteYou forgot to mention Peacock Blue - the chicken powered nuclear mine. I'm serious.
ReplyDeleteFor the record, there's information on how to build an atomic bomb here: http://home.earthlink.net/~enigmaep/annihilation/buildabomb.html
Like it. Yes indeed.
ReplyDeleteI only knew 2 of these.
ReplyDeleteDave - just read it. Very useful advice.
ReplyDeleteIf you ever have the opportunity, you should go to the Peace Museum at Hiroshima. It should be compulsory for all children and they should all have to ring the Peace Bell, as it says, gently.
ReplyDeleteThe pictures I took of my family immediately before and after visiting speak for themselves as to the impact it made. I watched my eldest boy stand for 10 minutes at the visitor's record, just trying to put together some adequate words.
I got all 10 right, including the tricky 10th, but that merely reflects the interest that took us there.
Being there was a special opportunity to mourn for the tens of thousands who died, give thanks for the millions who lived who would otherwise have perished and rejoice in the prospect of the tens of millions yet to come, who might never have been.
Paul Tibbets died last month and never wavered from his conviction that they did what was necessary and proper at the time. And it's a sad reflection on humanity that I still have to think that he was right.