Автор: W. H. P. Blandy
Название: Operation Crossroads: The Official Pictorial Record
Издательство: Wm. H. Wise & Co.
Год: 1946
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 234
Язык: English
Размер: 20.8 MB

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 in July 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 of nuclear weapons on warships.