Stafford Warren
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.
- A Fleet of Ghosts…civil defense, naval construction. They wanted to understand the atomic age. The radiological safety officers prepared for their role. Dr. Stafford Warren, the chief of the Medical Section of the Manhattan Project, led the effort. He had surveyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, had seen what radiation…
- The Unwilling Pioneers of Rongerik…sembled for the greatest experiment in naval history. The specialised job of radiological safety was handled by the Manhattan Project, with Stafford Warren as Chief of the Radiological Safety Section. On Rongerik, 167 people tried to survive. Cultural dislocation compounded physical hardship. B…
- Admiral Blandy’s Fleet of Intended Ruin…ht still provide valuable data about structural failure. The tension between these purposes shaped every aspect of the preparation. Colonel Stafford Warren, the chief of the Radiological Safety Section, had arrived at Bikini with concerns that the Navy did not fully share. Warren had served as…