Today we take a look at the USN's big idea of nuking almost 100 ships to see what would happen.

Sources:
https://archive.org/download/operatio...
https://www.history.navy.mil/browseb...
OPERATION CROSSROADS LEST WE FORGET! An Eyewitness Account, Bikini Atomic Bomb Tests 1946 by William L. McGee with Sandra V. McGee
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefingbo...
"Crossroads at Bikini", Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute


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