Working in war factories in the West is the correct answer :)
I find the media the most important because their role is to inform, criticize, and stimulate debate.
I suggest you to go with first one a. there was heavy damage only within a mile of the bomb's impact. There're no closer description than that.
The articles of confederation was drafted after the revolutionary war. But later on this would also create issues since the power was given to states and not to the Federal government.