CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Operation Crossroads was an atmospheric nuclear weapon test series conducted by Joint Army/Navy Task Force One in the summer of 1946 at Bikini ...

Click to open image viewer. The Operation Crossroads was an expedition to Bikini and the northern Marshall Islands in 1946 under the auspices of the Department of the Navy. Dr. Leonard P. Schultz, ...

From his flagship, westward bound for the Marshall Islands, the commander of the Bikini atom-bomb test broadcast to the U.S.: “Another Operation Crossroads is about to be executed by the Columbia ...

In July 1946, the United States conducted a test of atomic weapons code named Operation CROSSROADS. From then until the test ban treaty in 1963, the Department of Defense and earlier agencies ...

Summary: The dropping of a nuclear bomb on a fleet of ninety-five warships during “Operation Crossroads” in 1946 marked a pivotal moment in understanding the impact of nuclear weapons on... Less than ...

Suggested Citation: "Front Matter." Institute of Medicine. 1996. Mortality of Veteran Participants in the CROSSROADS Nuclear Test. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5428. In ...