USS Saratoga
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- 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…ece, a corpse. She was also a reminder that the war had been won, and that the weapon about to be tested had ended it. The aircraft carrier USS Saratoga entered the lagoon on the fifteenth of June. A Lexington-class carrier, she had been originally designed as a battlecruiser, converted duri…
- Admiral Blandy’s Fleet of Intended Ruin…s away. She was no longer a warship. She was a target. The selection of vessels told its own story about what the Navy wanted to prove. The USS Saratoga, a venerable aircraft carrier launched in 1925, represented American naval might in its pre-war form. She had served throughout the Pacific…
- The Fathom-Five Shot and the Unwashable Mist…inated could not be cleaned, and the men who had tried to clean them had been exposed to radiation that no one had measured accurately. The USS Saratoga was towed out of the lagoon on 25 August 1946, a month after the Baker shot. She had been at Bikini since the beginning of the operation, o…