After the end of World War II, the United States of
America and the Soviet Union engaged in a nuclear arms race. Part of this arms race was the testing of a variety of nuclear weapons. These tests ranged in size from relatively no yield, safety tests to the Tsar Bomba that had a 50 to 58 Mt yield. Go here to see what would happen if a nuclear weapon was detonated in our area (or type in a different location). This interactive map of all nuclear weapons testing will let you know how many tests were conducted at each site. This video shows all of the testing between 1945 and 1998.
Create a folder titled Nuclear Testing and keep all documents related to this task in that folder. Share this folder to both your Algebra B and your US History B folders.
A document named Nuclear Testing and a spreadsheet named Nuclear Test Data has been created for you . The work for all of the following questions will be added to this document.
MATH PORTION 1. Use the data in the table below to create a graph. Place the properly titled and labeled graph in the document. 2. Look at the time before and after the Cuban Missile Crisis then use GeoGebra to determine if any of the sections of the graph represent an exponential function. 3. If the data does represent an exponential, determine the equation. 4. If this trend would continue, how many tests would there be the year you graduate?
HISTORY PORTION 5. Why there was a drop in the number of nuclear tests from 1958 - 1960? 6. What impact did the Cuban Missile Crisis have on the amount of nuclear testing that was done? 7. Take the Cuban Missile Crisis quiz and report your score and