Nagato
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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…side compartments where sailors had slept and eaten and written letters home. Three hundred yards to the northwest, the Japanese battleship Nagato rode at anchor. She had been the flagship of the Combined Fleet, the vessel from which Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto had ordered the attack on P…
- The Unwilling Pioneers of Rongerik…t 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 cruiser Prinz Eugen, taken from the defeated Kriegsmarine, floated in the lagoon.…
- Admiral Blandy’s Fleet of Intended Ruin…a and the Independence would provide the answer. But the fleet also held vessels that carried the weight of defeat. The Japanese battleship Nagato rode at anchor, her tall pagoda mast rising above the lagoon like a monument to a fallen empire. She had been the flagship of the Japanese…