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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10 Chicken and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who helped develop a strategy of how to use the bomb to end the war in Japan?
(a) Merrill Flood.
(b) John Nash.
(c) Robert Axelrod.
(d) John von Neumann.

2. What philosopher advocated a world government for peace?
(a) Hilbert.
(b) Alchian.
(c) Cun.
(d) Russell.

3. Who was President of the United States when the nuclear debate came to a head and a study resulted to determine how many bombs the U.S. actually had?
(a) Nixon.
(b) Truman.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Roosevelt.

4. Whose last work was an attempt to design a human brain based computer.
(a) David Hilbert.
(b) Kurt Godel.
(c) John von Neumann.
(d) John Nash.

5. Where were the Manhattan Project operations located?
(a) New York.
(b) D.C.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Arizona.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to details in Chapter 7 Harold Urey was a key developer of what?

2. John von Neumann worked with what company to help design a faster, more compact computer?

3. What war between the Allied and Axis powers was going on when von Neumann was invited to become part of the Manhattan Project?

4. Who publicly disavowed preemptive war after so publicly advocating this stance before?

5. Who was viewed as the "aggressors of peace?"

(see the answer key)

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