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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. The purpose of the tests was to investigate the effect ...
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.
Crossroads is a 1976 short film directed by Bruce Conner. It features 37 minutes of extreme slow-motion replays of the July 25, 1946 Operation Crossroads Baker underwater nuclear test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. [ 1 ]
The first series of tests over Bikini Atoll in July 1946 was codenamed Operation Crossroads. The first bomb, named Able, was dropped from an aircraft and detonated 520 ft (160 m) above the target fleet. The second, Baker, was suspended under a barge. It produced a large Wilson cloud and contaminated all of the target ships.
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.
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