Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

1. Why did scientists detonate 100 tons of TNT be- 9. How many died in Hiroshima? 20. How heavy was the housing that contained the fore they tested their bombs? Mike test bomb?

10. How many buildings were destroyed? 2. Who was put in charge of the Manhattan Project? 21. During the 1953 Nevada desert tests, why did the

smaller yield bomb cause more damage than the

11. How many died in Nagasaki? larger yield bomb? 3. Was the scientist Edward Teller at first in favor of the bomb project? 12. How many were injured? 22. What were the scientists studying when they ex-

ploded bombs in the ocean off of San Diego? 4. Did he ever regret working on the bombs? 13. What percent of the buildings were destroyed?

23. On later Pacific Island tests, why were floating 5. When the first test bomb exploded at the Trinity barges needed to carry the bombs? site in New Mexico, what were the values associated 14. During Operation Crossroads, which caused with each of the following? more damage; the airdrop, or the underwater explo- sion? 24. How high up was the Teak test shot detonated? a) temperature: b) pressure: 15. What was the purpose of Operation Sandstone? 25. What happened in the atmosphere as a result? c) distance at which a person would go temporarily blind: d) number of times greater than the explosion of 100 16. In what year did Russia first test an atomic 26. How far away were these effects felt, and how tons of TNT: bomb? long did they last?

6. Which city was the uranium Little Boy bomb 17. Who was Klaus Fuchs and what did he do? 27. What did the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty pro- dropped on? hibit? 18. How did the scientists double the yield of the 7. Which city was the plutonium Fat Man bomb Greenhouse series of test bombs? dropped on? 19. What occurred in the George series of tests? 8. Why was Little Boy detonated 1,800 feet above the ground?