POA - 07. History of Nuclear Weapons

Question 1

16 Jul 1945

Answer 1

First nuclear device detonated.

Question 2

6 Aug 1945

Answer 2

Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima

Question 3

9 Aug 1945

Answer 3

Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki

Question 4

Air corridors, protected by treaty, remain open in Berlin leading to the highly successful

Answer 4

Berlin Airlift

Question 5

Year Soviets conduct their first nuclear test

Answer 5

1949

Question 6

Year of Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 6

1962

Question 7

Year SAC was created

Answer 7

1946

Question 8

Mission of SAC

Answer 8

Guardianship and control of all nuclear-capable bombers and ICBMs

Question 9

Who controlled the majority of nuclear assets from 1946-1992?

Answer 9

SAC

Question 10

Motto of SAC

Answer 10

Peace is our mission

Question 11

SAC and TAC combined to create

Answer 11

Air Combat Command (ACC)

Question 12

Einstein sending a letter to the President, Manhattan Project, Little Boy, and Fat Man are examples of?

Answer 12

Pre-Cold War history of nuclear weapons

Question 13

Soviets ended the US nuclear monopoly in?

Answer 13

1949

Question 14

The 13 day strategic chess match between the US and the Soviet Union resulted in?

Answer 14

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 15

The stand-up of Air Combat Command signaled?

Answer 15

The end of the Cold War