If you’re not a science buff, the term “nuclear” probably stands out because you’ll have heard about nuclear weapons in the news, or you’ll have heard about it on a television show. How much do you really know about it, however? Test your Nuclear IQ in this quiz and find out!
Around 15 minutes
Half an hour
A few hours
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Recognizes only five nuclear weapons states
Forbids non-nuclear weapons states from acquiring nuclear technology
Allows for peaceful civilian uses of nuclear energy
Calls for conventional (non-nuclear) military disarmament
All of the above
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India
Pakistan
A Russian ICBM
A US nuclear submarine
Iran
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Intercontinental, Medium-, and Short-Range Ballistic Missiles, and Submarine-launched missiles
Air-dropped bombs
Artillery
A and b only
All of the above
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Against North Vietnam during the Vietnam war and recently against Iran
Against North Korea and Chinese troops during the Korean War
Against China in 1958 during peacetime
Against Iraq during the Gulf War
All of the above
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100
1,000
5,000
10,000
20,000
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15 kilotons of TNT
50 kilotons of TNT
180 kilotons of TNT
370 kilotons of TNT
1 megaton of TNT
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45 tons
20 tons
1 ton
500 kilograms
64 kilograms
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13,600
9,400
2,500
330
70
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2450, 2000, 1685, and 1350
680, 545, 385, and 320
350, 220, 175, and 110
130, 74, 48, and 25
25, 18, 14, and 9
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Around 2400
Around 20,000
Around 80,000
Around 200,000
Around 1 million
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$52.4 billion
$34.2 billion
$17 billion
$300.8 million
$126.9 million
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Total land area of the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and New Jersey
Total fallout area of a 1 megaton hydrogen bomb
The Netherlands
Total land area of the largest National Park in the Lower 48 states (Death Valley National Park in CA)
Total known land area occupied by U.S. nuclear weapons bases and facilities
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None
1
4
6
9
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340 kilotons of TNT
250 kilotons of TNT
130 kilotons of TNT
65 kilotons of TNT
20 kilotons of TNT
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Pakistan, India, Israel, North Korea
North Korea, Iran, Pakistan
United States, Russia, China, United Kingdom, France
United States, Pakistan, India
Israel, North Korea, Egypt
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46,000
220,000
500,000
1.7 million
2 million
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16
11
8
5
3
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The destruction of Japan’s merchant marine
The dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The firebombing of Japanese cities
Entry of the Soviet Union into the war
The US invasion in preparation
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