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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 was viewed as the "aggressors of peace?"
(a) The Soviet Union.
(b) Great Britain and the U.S.
(c) The United States.
(d) The U.S. and France.

2. According to details in Chapter 7 Harold Urey was a key developer of what?
(a) ICBMs.
(b) MIRVs.
(c) The atom bomb.
(d) The hydrogen bomb.

3. What General believed it was justified to use nuclear weapons in Korea to prevent a North Korean and Chinese victory?
(a) MacArthur.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Pershing.
(d) LeMay.

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

5. Which one of von Neumann's colleagues, though a left wing pacifist, joined with him in advocating preventative nuclear war against the Soviet Union?
(a) Russell.
(b) Einstein.
(c) Oppenheimer.
(d) Nash.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the Manhattan Project operations located?

2. In what year was von Neumann invited to join the Manhattan Project?

3. A study commissioned to find out how many bombs the U.S. had available reported that a total of 300 to 600 bombs were available in what year?

4. When a madman strategy is used by one player the opposing player is more likely to do what?

5. Whose last work was an attempt to design a human brain based computer.

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