radioactive Pearl Harbor.
Less than a year after the formal end of World War II the United States tested its new superweapons in peacetime. Operation Crossroads in 1946 at Bikini Atoll tested the effects of nuclear weapons on naval fleets and harbors.
While burrowing through the vast Manhattan Project archives historian Alex Wellerstein turned up evidence that Bikini wasn’t the first Pacific island in the atomic crosshairs. Another atoll may have been the earliest target considered by the Manhattan Project.
For a time before the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States considered nuking the Japanese fleet at anchor a kind of reverse,
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Secret Is Out: The U.S. Military Had a Plan to Nuke the Japanese Navy
For a time before the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States considered nuking the Japanese fleet at anchor a kind of reverse,
radioactive Pearl Harbor.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Wartime studies of underwater explosions in support of the plan to nuke Chuuk helped plan Shot Baker, Crossroads’ underwater test. Baker produced what is perhaps the most iconic image of a mushroom cloud, its size made even bigger by its eruption from a vast lagoon, hurling seawater and coral reef and whole battleships into the sky.
The Chilling Story of The Demon Core And The Scientists Who Became Its Victims
3 APRIL 2021
It was August 13, 1945, and the demon core was poised, waiting to be unleashed onto a stunned Japan still reeling in fresh chaos from the deadliest attacks anyone had ever seen.
A week earlier, Little Boy had detonated over Hiroshima, followed swiftly by Fat Man in Nagasaki.
These were the first and only nuclear bombs ever used in warfare, claiming as many as 200,000 lives – and if things had turned out a little differently, a third deadly strike would have followed in their hellish wake.
But history had other plans.