USS Nevada
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 Unwilling Pioneers of Rongerik…oaching. Fleet was ready. World was watching. On Bikini, preparations continued. Target ships rode at their moorings, waiting for the bomb. USS Nevada, painted orange for visibility, held the aiming point. Japanese battleship Nagato, captured prize of the Pacific War, waited nearby. German…
- Admiral Blandy’s Fleet of Intended RuinThe paint smelled of chemicals and distance. A boatswain’s mate knelt on the teak deck of the USS Nevada with a five-gallon bucket and a wide brush, working the bright orange pigment into the gray wood. The color was not meant to be beautiful.…
- The Battleship Nevada’s Marking Day…nd opened her sea cocks just enough to let the water find its level. She rode low in the lagoon, a hull waiting to be holed. The battleship USS Nevada, the only battleship to get underway at the Attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, had been designated as the aim point for Able and was painted o…