Operation Crossroads 1946

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Operation Crossroads was an atmospheric nuclear weapon test series conducted by the United States in the summer of 1946. The series consisted of two detonations, each with a yield of 21 kilotons: ABLE detonated at an altitude of 520 feet (158 m) on 1 July 1946; BAKER detonated 90 feet (27 m) underwater on 25 July 1946. A third planned burst, CHARLIE, was scrubbed after BAKER presented more radiological contamination than had been expected. The Crossroads tests were the fourth and fifth nuclear explosions (following the Trinity test and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). It was the first nuclear test held in the Marshall Islands and the first to be publicly announced beforehand.

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  • Poor goats.

    Poor goats.

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  • cool video but the ...

    cool video but the music is disgusting, couldn't you put the original? and it would also be nice to see what the guys on the video said. Damned bastards, to put animals in cages while the bomb explodes...but it doesn't surprise me, after all they dropped 2 nukes on 2 big cities in Japan. And the bombings on Tokio and Dresden? Still better to be in US hands than in Hitler's or Stalin's. War's hell...

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  • mixing up something ...

    mixing up something with Vietnam?

    Or maybe with the H-Bomb-tests, if you cancel the "burnt"?

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  • That was probably ...

    That was probably the German cruiser Prinz Eugen... She was so well-built she was one the only ship to survive all the nuclear blasts

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  • they were evacuated ...

    they were evacuated from the island ahead of time.

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