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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the plane that drops the second atomic bomb?

2. When is the explosion of the first Russian atomic bomb?

3. Who is assigned to find the Trinity test site?

4. Who says, "I'll tell you what war is about. You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough, they stop fighting."

5. Where does the first full-scale self-sustained nuclear chain reaction occur?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are the target cities for the bombs chosen? What are the considerations that go into their choice? Why are Hiroshima and Nagasaki the final two choices?

Essay Topic 2

Many of the scientists involved with the making of the atomic bomb in the United States are refugees from Europe. Choose three of these refugee scientists. Discuss why they leave their homeland , how they arrive in the United States and what their role is in the making of the bomb.

Essay Topic 3

The discovery of the neutron is considered the beginning of nuclear physics. Why? What role does this discovery have in the making of the atomic bomb? Is the bomb built without this discovery?

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