Nuclear Age General Knowledge MCQs - 1

Nuclear Age General Knowledge MCQs - 1

1. USA exploded its first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert on
(a) 18th August, 1945
(b) 18th July, 1945
(c) 6th September, 1945
(d) 25th September, 1945 ✓

2. First Atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on 6th August, 1945 and second Atom bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on
(a) 10th August, 1945
(b) 16th September, 1945
(c) 9th August, 1945 ✓
(d) 19th June, 1945

3. Which country exploded its first atom bomb on 29th August, 1949?
(a) Soviet Union ✓
(b) China
(c) France
(d) Germany

4. Which country detonated its nuclear bomb in the northwest coast of Australia in 1952
(a) USA
(b) Israel
(c) South Africa
(d) U.K ✓

5. Why two persons named Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in electric chair in 1953 after being found guilty of stealing US nuclear secrets and passing them to
(a) Soviet Union ✓
(b) China
(c) Germany
(d) France

6. Which country exploded its first hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in Indian Ocean in 1957
(a) Britain ✓
(b) USA
(c) Soviet Union
(d) France

7. Which country exploded its atom bomb in the Sahara desert on 13 February 1960?
(a) Germany
(b) USA
(c) France ✓
(d) Britain

8. Cuban missile crises which brought the world to the brink of nuclear war ended which Soviet Union promised to dismantle nuclear missiles in
(a) 1961
(b) 1962 ✓
(c) 1963
(d) 1964

9. Partial Test Ban Treaty was agreed upon by USA and Soviet Union in
(a) 1961
(b) 1962
(c) 1963 ✓
(d) 1964

10. China exploded its first nuclear bomb on
(a) 16 October 1964 ✓
(b) 16 March 1964
(c) 16 March 1969
(d) 17 April 1966

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