Facts About Nuclear Weapons

Multiple Select

Currently NINE countries have nuclear weapons.
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Check any countries below that DO have nuclear weapons currently.

• USA
• Russia
• Japan

• India
• Israel

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Currently NINE countries have nuclear weapons.
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Check any countries below that DO have nuclear weapons currently.

• China

• Canada

• Brazil

• Pakistan

• Ukraine

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Currently NINE countries have nuclear weapons.
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Check any countries below that DO have nuclear weapons currently.

• Mexico

• Afghanistan

• France

• Poland

• Egypt

Multiple Select

Currently NINE countries have nuclear weapons.
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Check any countries below that DO have nuclear weapons currently.

• United Kingdom

• Saudi Arabia

• Sweden

• North Korea

• Iraq

9 countries

​Nine countries currently have nuclear weapons. They are:

• United States: 1945

• Russia: 1949

• United Kingdom: 1952

• France: 1960

• China: 1964

• India: 1974

• Pakistan: 1998

• Israel: Has never confirmed or denied the existence of its nukes

• North Korea: 2006

Multiple Choice

Which country was developing nuclear nuclear weapons until the USA made a deal with them in 2016?

• Syria

• Portugal

• Canada

• Iran

Multiple Choice

Approximately how many nuclear warheads exist today?

• 12,100

• 1,200

• 120

• 12

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True or False? The United States and Russia possess nearly 90% of the world's nuclear weapons, with each country having over 5,500 weapons.

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True

False

How Quickly Can a Nuclear Weapon be Deployed?

That depends!

According to Matt Korda, a senior research associate and project manager for the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists:

The U.S. and Russia keep a portion of their nuclear weapons on prompt alert, meaning they could be ready to launch “in under 15 minutes,” A 2015 paper by the Union of Concerned Scientists estimated that the U.S. and Russia each had around 900 weapons on such hair-trigger alert.

Other countries—including China, Israel, India and Pakistan—keep their nuclear weapons in central storage, meaning they would have to be taken out and “mated to their delivery systems in a crisis.” This could take days, or even weeks, to arrange.

Multiple Choice

The radioactive debris from a nuclear explosion can be carried by the wind and even limited exposure can be lethal. What is this debris called?

• Rubble

• Fallout

• Shadow

• Hydrogen

Multiple Choice

What was the name of the guy who invented the atom bomb?

• Elmo Andrysiak

• Fred Rogers

• J. Robert Oppenheimer

• Alexander Hamilton

Multiple Choice

The first two Atom Bombs were dropped at the end of WWII on which two cities?

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• St. Petersberg and Stalingrad

• Tokyo and Kyoto

• Berlin and Dusseldorf

​Should we be worried about nuclear war?

It is certainly a real threat that we should take seriously. Many believe the risk has been rising, and feel it is a threat society should pay more attention to since the consequences could be unimaginable.

But others feel that the effects would be so devastating that in the event of a nuclear war there would be NO WINNERS. This is called Mutually Assured Destruction and has so far acted as a deterrent (or a fact that discourages people from doing something).

Poll

Ray Bradbury predicted nuclear Holocaust by 2026
(76 years in his future/2 years in ours).

Do you think his prediction will be correct?

• Yeah...I'm preparing...

• No way!

• It's possible, but probably not.

• I have no idea what is going on