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Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity on July 16, 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
English: Operation Crossroad - Baker shot government test footage as seen from multiple angles, on July 25th, 1946. Français : Explosion atomique Baker durant Operation Crossroad . Film par le Département de l'Énergie et la Marine des États-Unis, le 25 juillet 1946, avec différents angles de vue.
Walter Haut was born in Chicago, Illinois, on June 3, 1922.During World War II, he was a bombardier flying 35 missions against Japan. At Operation Crossroads, the A-bomb tests at the Bikini atoll in the summer of 1946, he dropped instrument packages to record data from the bomb blasts.
A video shared on Facebook claims to show an unidentified flying object (UFO) in Germany. Verdict: False The video was created using computer-generated imagery (CGI). It has been debunked since 2021.
The Pentagon announced they solved one of the most famous UFO videos that sparked a wave of national interest and speculation when it was first released in 2017. An official...
She served as a unit of the target group for "Operation Crossroads". She survived the atomic bomb tests and was retained for structural and radiation study at Kwajalein until 12 May 1948 when she was disposed of by sinking. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 28 May 1948. USS Butte (APA-68) earned one battle star during World War II.
Declassified footage from a US Navy F/A-18 shows a UFO flying at high speed somewhere "off the East Coast of the United States in 2015."
Jesse Antoine Marcel Sr. (May 27, 1907 – June 23, 1986) was a major in the United States Air Force (later a lieutenant colonel in the Reserves) who helped administer Operation Crossroads, the 1946 atom bomb tests at the Bikini Atoll.