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Introduction to Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear Weapons Gallery Walk
Bumper Sticker
Final Questions

2. Mapping and Understanding a Nuclear World

3. Station #1
What is a Nuclear Weapon?

4. Nuclear vs. Conventional Weapons
The terms conventional weapons or conventional arms are used to describe weapons that are in wide use that are not weapons of mass destruction 
This includes any armament used in crimes, conflicts or wars
These are categorized as Conventional weapons and includes small arms and light weapons, sea and land mines, as well as (non- weapons of mass destruction)  bombs, shells, rockets, missiles, clus ter munitions,

5. A Brief History of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons is a term used to describe weapons that rely on the power of the atom
The earliest nuclear weapons were referred to as atomic bombs and used a process called fission to produce explosive energy
In the 1950’s, both the United States and the Soviet Union increased the explosive power of weapons by utilizing a process known as fusion; these weapons are known as thermonuclear bombs.
How do Nuclear Weapons work?

6. Questions Answer the questions below in your foldable
What is a conventional weapon? Give an example.
What is a nuclear weapon?
Scan the QR code and watch the video. Describe the process of making a nuclear weapon. Is it easy?

7. Station #2
When Have Nuclear Weapons Been Used?

8. The “Tsar Bomba”
The Tsar Bomba was the United States’ nickname for the Soviet RDS-220 hydrogen bomb, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated.
Its test on October 30, remains the most powerful human-made explosion in history.
The Tsar Bomba mushroom cloud seen from a distance of 100 mi. The crown of the cloud is 35 mi high at the time of the picture.

9. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The U.S. developed nuclear weapons during World War II in a massive and costly effort called “The Manhattan Project”.
The project involved thousands of scientists and engineers and cost more than two billion dollars
Hiroshima before and after
Hoping to speed the end of the war, President Harry S. Truman ( ) authorized dropping the bomb on Japan.
The United States dropped the first nuclear bomb on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.

10. Barefoot Gen
Barefoot Gen is a Japanese manga series by Keiji Nakazawa.
Based on Nakazawa's own experiences as a Hiroshima survivor, the series begins in 1945 in and around Hiroshima, Japan, where the six- year-old boy Gen Nakaoka lives with his family.
After Hiroshima is destroyed by atomic bombing, Gen and other survivors are left to deal with the aftermath.
The bomb struck Hiroshima with an explosive force of 12,500 tons of TNT. The city was home to approximately 280,000 civilians and 43,000 soldiers. Approximately 100,000 of them died immediately or within a few months of the blast

11. Questions Answer the questions below in your foldable
Where was/how big was the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated?
Which was the first country to develop and use nuclear weapons in war? Where were they used?
How many people died in the first uses of nuclear weapons?

12. Station #3
Which Countries Have Nuclear Weapons?

13. China

14. Which countries have nuclear weapons ?
Facts from the Map
The United States, Russia, The United Kingdom, France, and China have nuclear weapons and have signed the NPT
India, Pakistan, and Israel have nuclear weapons, but have not signed the NPT
Iran and North Korea are actively and/or allegedly developing nuclear weapons technology

15. Results of the NPT(Non-Proliferation Treaty)
What is the NPT?
What have been the effects of the NPT?

16. Questions Answer the questions below in your foldable
What is the NPT?
Which countries have nuclear weapons and have signed the NPT?
Which countries have nuclear weapons but have not signed the NPT?
Which countries have had nuclear weapons and have given them up?
How many nuclear weapons does the United States have? How many does Russia have? What percentage of the world’s total nuclear weapons are Russian or U.S. weapons?

17. Station #4
What Are The Effects of Nuclear Weapons?

18. Effects of Nuclear Weapons
Radiation is a quantifiable unit of energy given off by atomic particles.
Radiation that occurs from nuclear material may result in weakening of seeds and frequent mutations.
For instance, a nuclear plant, called Chernobyl in the Soviet Union (Ukraine) leaked in 1986 that caused excessive amounts of radiation pollution in that region. A huge cloud of radiation was formed which resulted in a massive amount of destroyed plant life; particularly pine trees in that area. 

19. Effects of Nuclear Weapons
In Chernobyl, a huge cloud of radiation was formed which resulted in a massive amount of destroyed plant life; particularly pine trees in that area. 
The nuclear explosions are examples of high levels of radiation. However, low doses of radiation can kill germs and decrease the number of food poisoning cases.

20. Questions Answer the questions below in your foldable
What is radiation?
What are some of the short-term effects of radiation on the human body?
What are the long-term effects of radiation on the human body?
What would be required to protect yourself from radiation?

21. Station #5
What is the future of nuclear weapons?

22. Efforts to Stop Nuclear Weapons
Non-Proliferation is the prevention of the spread of nuclear weapons (the spread of these weapons is known as proliferation) and is a top priority for the United States.

23. Russia, The United States, and Nuclear Arms Reduction
Russia and the United States have approximately 16,200 warheads of the approximately 17,300 nuclear weapons in the world.
Since the end of the Cold War, U.S. and Russian leaders have signed several treaties that reduce each country’s stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
Examples of treaties: START(Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) and SORT (Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty)

24. Comparing Views on Nuclear Weapons
President Obama
President Trump

25. Questions Answer the questions below in your foldable
What is Non-Proliferation?
Russia and the United States have approximately ___________ of the some _________ nuclear weapons in the world.
What is the purpose of arms control? Give an example of an arms control treaty.
What have our latest presidents had to say about nuclear weapons?
President Obama:
President Trump:

26. Station #6
What was the Cold War?

27. The Cold War
Political, strategic and ideological(battle of ideas) struggle between the United States (US) and the USSR that spread throughout the world
Struggle that contained everything short of war
Competing social and economic ideologies

28. The Cold War
Soviet & Eastern Bloc Nations [“Iron Curtain”]
US & the Western Democracies
GOAL  spread world-wide Communism
GOAL  “Containment” of Communism & the eventual collapse of the Communist world.
How did it happen?:
Espionage [KGB vs. CIA]
Arms Race [nuclear escalation]
Ideological Competition for the minds and hearts of Third World peoples [Communist govt. & command economy vs. democratic govt. & capitalist economy]  “proxy wars”
Bi-Polarization (Splitting) of Europe [NATO vs. Warsaw Pact]

29. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949)
United States
Belgium
Britain
Canada
Denmark
France
Iceland
Italy
Luxemburg
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
1952: Greece & Turkey
1955: West Germany
1983: Spain

30. Warsaw Pact (1955) U. S. S. R. Albania Bulgaria Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Hungary
Poland
Rumania

31. Questions Answer the questions below in your foldable
What two countries were on the opposing sides of the Cold War?
What strategies were used by these two nations to fight the Cold War?