Arms race

Question 1

Trinity test

Answer 1

July 16th 1945

Question 2

Hiroshima

Answer 2

August 4th 1945
140000 killed

Question 3

Nagasaki

Answer 3

August 6th 1945
74000 killed

Question 4

USSR 1st test atomic

Answer 4

Aug. 29, 1949 In Kazakstan

Question 5

UsA H bomb test

Answer 5

November 1, 1952
up to 1,000 times more than atomic bombs
10 megatons vs hiroshimas 13 kilotons

Question 6

Ussr H bomb test

Answer 6

November 22, 1955

Question 7

Ussr ICBM

Answer 7

August 21st 1957

Question 8

Ussr tsar bomba

Answer 8

60 megatons
October 30th 1961

Question 9

Cuban missile crisis

Answer 9

Usa own 95% of Cuban exports and businesses, close ties to Batista who gains 50% of mafias money from casinos. Very corrupt.

1st January 1959. Cuba falls to communism by Castro. They nationalize all us businesses.

Leads to usa brutality, bay of pig’s fiasco 17th April 1961, over 1400 exiles invade, fails, 100 return

Pushes Cuba to ally with Ussr

14th October 1962- U2 spy planes find nuclear weapons

16th October – quarantine line established, standoff for 13 days

Tensions peak 24th oct – soviet submarine hit with depth charge

Eventually mutually stand down

Question 10

SDI 1983

Answer 10

200billion
71 -147 million in defense
43% - 253 million is 7% of GDP
vs how 128 million is 27% of the ussrs gdp

Question 11

Brilliant Pebbles

Answer 11

1987
25 billion