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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...
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  • Look up crossroads or crossroad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Crossroads, crossroad, cross road(s) or similar may refer to: Crossroads (1928 film)...
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    lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force who helped administer Operation Crossroads, the 1946 atom bomb tests at the Bikini Atoll.: 39 : i  Marcel was...
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    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...
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    information from Farrell, but he knows nothing about this aspect of Mundson's operations. The Germans return to the casino during a carnival celebration, and Mundson...
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    "Operation Crossroads – The Official Pictorial Record". New York: W. H. Wise and Co. Inc. 1946. p. 21. Weisgall, Jonathan (1994). Operation Crossroads:...
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    benefits. The first use of the Pacific Proving Grounds was during Operation Crossroads, the first nuclear testing done after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima...
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    Gunnery Range in New Mexico. Two more were detonated during the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946, and some 120 were produced...
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    States conducted its first post-war nuclear tests — Operation Crossroads. The purpose of this operation was to test the effect of nuclear explosions on ships...
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    Operation Sandstone was a series of nuclear weapon tests in 1948. It was the third series of American tests, following Trinity in 1945 and Crossroads...
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