IEER SDA Volume 4, Number 3: Atomic Puzzler

The Atomic Puzzler!

It's time to challenge your word power and give your arithmetic abilities a calculated rest. This is not an interactive crossword, so you should print this page our first. Then, look at the clues and fill in the blocks with the appropriate words. All words are described somewhere in this issue of the newsletter. Good luck!
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2. The total worldwide plutonium production by 1994 was estimated to be in the amount of ______ metric tons. 1. The section of the Non-Proliferation Treaty that requires progress toward disarmament.
4. His "X-ray" studies were actually of the natural radioactivity of uranium. 3. The only scientist to quit the US atomic bomb project when it became clear Germany would not develop an atomic weapon.
6. The joining together of two or more nuclei resulting in the release of energy. 5. The scientific director of Los Alamos Laboratory during the first US atomic bomb project.
8. He discovered X-rays in 1895 while studying electrons. 7. The number of declared nuclear weapon states.
9. The splitting of a nucleus, which results in a release of energy.
10. The top secret program to develop the first atomic weapon.
11. Director of the program referred to in clue #10.
12. Electromagnetic waves, released during radioactive decay, that can ionize atoms and split chemical bonds.

Answers available here.

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