INS 3003 Final Exam (Whitney Bendeck)
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Who has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world? Who has
the second largest? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Russia has the largest and the U.S.
has the second largest.
What are three possible reasons why we don't use our nuclear weapons? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. They are destructive
2. Battlefield Utility
3. They are wrong/immoral
Fill in the blank: Once you have a military industrial complex, the
_____________ become the norm. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔new weapons
Do countries fo backwards in terms of firepower? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔No; they
increase firepower and precision
Fill in the blank: All weapons are designed to be _____________. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔destructive
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,Fill in the blank: The U.S. used ___________, or incendiary devices, in
Dresden and Hamburg. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔firebombs
How many people were killed when the firebomb was dropped on
Dresden? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔35,000
How many people were killed when the firebomb was dropped on
Hamburg? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔50,000
Fill in the blank: Firebombs relayed the destructiveness of _________. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔World War 2
What is a daisy cutter? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a device put on bombs so they
explode before impact so that is causes a massive horizontal spray of
energy
What is the MOAB? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Mother of All Bombs; biggest bomb
we have
Is it true that nuclear weapons don't have battlefield utility? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔No
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,Fill in the blank: Most powers believed that _______________________
was the way we were going and looked for smaller impact weapons. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔thermonuclear weapons
Why did most powers start to look for smaller impact weapons? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔They were more precise
What did the powers turning to smaller impact weapons lead to? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔tactical nuclear weapons that could fit on artillery shells,
torpedos, etc.
Who came up with the "Nuclear Taboo" concept? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Nina
Tannenwald
What is the nuclear taboo? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔speaking of the use of or
actually using nuclear weapons
According to Tannenwald, did most people know that the bombs were
destructive? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔No, it took dropping them to know.
What percent of the American population agreed immediately after WW2
with the United States' decision of drop the bombs on Japan? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔80%
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, What were the reasons why Americans approved on bombing Hiroshima
and Nagasaki? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. Tensions were running high.
2. Pearl Harbor attack
3. Japanese were not prone to surrendering.
4. The bombs could shorten the war and save lives.
What was the immediate death toll of Hiroshima? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔70,000
By the end of 1945, how many people had died from the Hiroshima
bombing? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔140,000
By 1950, how many people died as a result of Hiroshima? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔200,000
What cause American generals to stop believing nuclear weapons would
become the mainstay of war? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the death toll
What was Hiroshima chosen by the Americans to be bombed? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. It was surrounded by mountains.
2. It was one of the few places that hadn't been bombed.
What caused people to keep dying after the Hiroshima bombing? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔radiation
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2024/2025 Exam Questions and Answers
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Who has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world? Who has
the second largest? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Russia has the largest and the U.S.
has the second largest.
What are three possible reasons why we don't use our nuclear weapons? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. They are destructive
2. Battlefield Utility
3. They are wrong/immoral
Fill in the blank: Once you have a military industrial complex, the
_____________ become the norm. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔new weapons
Do countries fo backwards in terms of firepower? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔No; they
increase firepower and precision
Fill in the blank: All weapons are designed to be _____________. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔destructive
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,Fill in the blank: The U.S. used ___________, or incendiary devices, in
Dresden and Hamburg. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔firebombs
How many people were killed when the firebomb was dropped on
Dresden? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔35,000
How many people were killed when the firebomb was dropped on
Hamburg? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔50,000
Fill in the blank: Firebombs relayed the destructiveness of _________. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔World War 2
What is a daisy cutter? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a device put on bombs so they
explode before impact so that is causes a massive horizontal spray of
energy
What is the MOAB? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Mother of All Bombs; biggest bomb
we have
Is it true that nuclear weapons don't have battlefield utility? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔No
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,Fill in the blank: Most powers believed that _______________________
was the way we were going and looked for smaller impact weapons. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔thermonuclear weapons
Why did most powers start to look for smaller impact weapons? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔They were more precise
What did the powers turning to smaller impact weapons lead to? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔tactical nuclear weapons that could fit on artillery shells,
torpedos, etc.
Who came up with the "Nuclear Taboo" concept? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Nina
Tannenwald
What is the nuclear taboo? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔speaking of the use of or
actually using nuclear weapons
According to Tannenwald, did most people know that the bombs were
destructive? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔No, it took dropping them to know.
What percent of the American population agreed immediately after WW2
with the United States' decision of drop the bombs on Japan? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔80%
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, What were the reasons why Americans approved on bombing Hiroshima
and Nagasaki? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. Tensions were running high.
2. Pearl Harbor attack
3. Japanese were not prone to surrendering.
4. The bombs could shorten the war and save lives.
What was the immediate death toll of Hiroshima? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔70,000
By the end of 1945, how many people had died from the Hiroshima
bombing? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔140,000
By 1950, how many people died as a result of Hiroshima? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔200,000
What cause American generals to stop believing nuclear weapons would
become the mainstay of war? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the death toll
What was Hiroshima chosen by the Americans to be bombed? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. It was surrounded by mountains.
2. It was one of the few places that hadn't been bombed.
What caused people to keep dying after the Hiroshima bombing? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔radiation
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