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8 Cards in this Set
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Manhattan Project |
Team of scientists sent to New Mexico to work on super secrete plan, developed and exploded worlds first atomic bomb |
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Cold War |
There was no real "fighting", nuclear warfare |
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Nuclear "Arms Race" |
Soviet Union developed its own atomic bomb |
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Hydrogen Bomb |
Immensely more powerful than the atomic bomb |
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Sputnik/ "Space Race" |
Scared U.S. ,thought S.U. wuld use missiles to rain down nuclear bombs on us and we felt we were behind |
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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
Signed to create peace, |
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Summarize nuclear weponds changing the balance of war |
Changes a balance of powers, kept other countried from attacking eahother |
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Summarize how atomic weapons started the nuclear age |
Atomic weapond were so powerful, America become so familiar with using nuclear energy for power and other things also |
