DAWN OF THE NUCLEAR AGE
Dec 29, 2020
2 minutes
n June 1946 the U.S. military assembled a fleet of more than 95 obsolete, decommissioned, and captured ships at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands to study the effects of nuclear weapons on ships, equipment, material, and living creatures. The exercise, dubbed Operation Crossroads, involved exploding two 21-kiloton atomic
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