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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.
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.
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.
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.
Michaela Pontellini wrote in Vancouver Weekly, “Radio Bikini, which is named for the temporary radio station positioned on the island shortly before Operation Crossroads began, is firmly against the destructive powers of nuclear energy. There are no interviews with anyone other than the victims of the disaster, and the focus is entirely on ...
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.
That, my second-ever UFO sighting, was brief but significant and indelible,” Alexander wrote. Jim Semivan, a former senior intelligence member of the CIA, also wrote the foreword to Bledsoe’s ...
James C. Fox (born 25 April 1968) is an English-born American documentary filmmaker, best known for executive producing documentaries about UAPs, such as Out of the Blue (2003), Pretty Slick (2016) about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, The Phenomenon (2020), and Moment of Contact about the Varginha UFO incident.