Operation Crossroads
Books
- Two Bombs at Bikini Operation Crossroads and the Birth of the Nuclear Age · Liszt Think
In July 1946, the U.S. Navy assembled ninety target ships and forty-two thousand men at Bikini Atoll to test atomic weapons against a fleet. What followed was a collision of military ambition and invisible peril.
- The Sun-Ringed Lagoon…d a fleet survive a nuclear attack? Would the weapon work against ships as it had against cities? The planned series of tests was codenamed Operation Crossroads. They would be the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity on July 16, 1945, and the first detonations since Nagasaki. The Navy had a part…
- The Unwilling Pioneers of Rongerik…Logistics of feeding 167 people on a remote atoll were complicated. Supply runs had to be scheduled around test preparations. Priorities of Operation Crossroads came first. Juda watched his people grow thinner. Children did not run and play as they had on Bikini. Old men sat in shade and conserved s…
- Admiral Blandy’s Fleet of Intended Ruin…ratory. Admiral William H.P. Blandy had arrived on the first of June to take personal command. The operation had been planned and codenamed Operation Crossroads, and the scale of the undertaking dwarfed anything previously attempted in naval history. Approximately 42, 000 personnel were deployed to…