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Operation Crossroads was an atmospheric nuclear weapon test series conducted in the summer of 1946 at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The series consisted of two detonations, a low altitude test and a shallow water test. The series was intended to study the effects of nuclear weapons on warships, equipment, and material.
NASM.XXXX.0302
United States. Army Air Forces
1946
Col. Donald Putt, Gift, unknown, XXXX-0302, unknown
0.83 Cubic feet ((1 flatbox))
National Air and Space Museum Archives
This scrapbook is a photo and documentary history of the Task Group T-2 which was given the responsibility of the overall supervision of the AAF Airborne installation and large part of the photography. It mostly contains what appears to be photograph prints for briefing boards. Included are statistics and supply requirements, charts of types of cameras, film requirements and costs, personnel requirements and costs, personnel involved and the natives of Bikini Atoll. It closes with a series of the five color photographs taken during the tests.
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Operation Crossroads, 1946
Nuclear weapons -- Marshall Islands -- Bikini Atoll -- Testing
Nuclear weapons -- United States
Nuclear weapons -- Testing
Nuclear weapons
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Archival materials
Charts
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Photographs
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