CBRN History - Benjamin Flashcards
What is the name of the atomic weapon dropped on Hiroshima, Japan? What date was it dropped?
“Little Boy” was dropped on 6 August 1945
What is the name and yield of the largest ever nuclear weapon detonated?
Tsar Bomba, 50 megatons
At what location were chemical weapons first used in the 20th century?
Ypres Salient (or, Ypres, Belgium)
Locals in Goiania, Brazil discovered a canister of what shiny blue powder at an abandoned medical treatment facility?
Cesium-137
Sergei and Yulia Skripal were exposed to which agent at Salisbury, U.K. in 2018?
Novichok agent
The anthrax outbreaks in 1979 in Russia revealed the existence of what program?
BIOPREPARAT
What Japanese unit is associated with rampant biological experimentation during World War II?
Unit 731
On what date did the Chernobyl nuclear disaster begin?
26 April 1986
Which cult is associated with the 1995 Tokyo Subway Attacks, and which agent did they use?
Aum Shinrikyo used Sarin (GB), a nerve agent
Which chemical leaked from the Union Carbide plant near Bhopal, India in 1984, resulting in the deaths of thousands?
Methyl isocyanate
What date was the first nuclear weapons test?
16 July 1945 (Trinity Test)
Saddam Hussein’s Anfal campaign targeted which ethnic group with chemical weapons?
The Kurds, for their support of Iranian forces during the war
The massive scientific and political effort to develop the atomic bomb was known as what?
The Manhattan Project
Who is largely considered the mastermind of German chemical weapons?
Fritz Haber, a Nobel prize winning chemist
Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated using what agent?
Ricin
In Fall of 2001, letters containing what agent circulated through the U.S. Postal service?
Bacillus anthracis (bacterium that causes anthrax)
What is the name of the atomic weapon dropped on Nagasaki, Japan? What date was it dropped?
“Fat Man” was dropped on 9 August 1945
What isotope was used in the 2007 assassination of Alexandr Litvinenko? What type of emitter is it?
Polonium-210. an alpha emitter
Tamper-evident seals on medications stem from what historic use of cyanides?
Tylenol Murders in Chicago, 1982
Who is credited with discovering nerve agents?
Gerhard Schrader, a scientist at IG Farben
The earliest known military use of nerve agent occurred during which conflict?
Iran-Iraq War
