USA HISTORY

POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959

BERLIN AIRLIFT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This was the time period where countries were building up their nuclear weapons supply out of fear
A
Cold War
B
World War I
C
Heat Wave
D
Great Depression
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The dangers from such weapons arise from their very existence. Although nuclear weapons have only been used twice in warfare-in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945-about 13, 400 reportedly remain in our world today and there have been over 2, 000 nuclear tests conducted to date.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nuclear anxiety, also known as nucleomituphobia, refers to anxiety or even a phobia in the face of a potential future nuclear holocaust, especially during the Cold War and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Detailed explanation-3: -The United States developed the first nuclear weapons during World War II in cooperation with the United Kingdom and Canada as part of the Manhattan Project, out of the fear that Nazi Germany would develop them first.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first atomic bomb detonated over a populated area occurred on August 6, 1945 at 8:15 AM over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb name was Little Boy. The bomb type was a gun-assembly bomb. It was deployed by a B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay.

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