The Controversy of Operation Crossroads: A Post-WWII Nuclear Weapons Test

In the mid 1940s, my grandfather, Commander Larry Condon, witnessed the testing of three-nuclear powered component bombs. Although all(prenominal) of his war stories have interested me in the past, upon learning of this special experience, I became fascinated with the subject-especially given one particular mention he made when describing the explosions to me: It was beautiful. Just beautiful. It seemed remarkable to me that anyone could call an jot bomb exploding at the destructive capacity of millions of sticks of dynamite beautiful.

I headstrong to look into it, and upon researching the topic, I discovered that thousands of other sailors witnessing similar specs also joined in with my grandfather in astonishment and astonishment at the explosion-but never fear. Not once did I find a comment relating how worried the witnesses were that they were in danger. kinda frankly, such blatant ignorance of danger on such bulky a scale made me extremity to discover scarce what it was that had caused the ignorance. Was it a naïve navy? Misleading scientists? A regime cover-up?

Then I read of Operation Crossroads, which involved the ebullition of two atom bombs on the island of Bikini Atoll in the marshall Islands, the two detonations dubbed Operation Able, an aboveground test, and Operation Baker, an underwater test.



I found that the navy had well-informed scientists who warned them of the danger, and yet the tests continued anyway, and that president Truman, whether he was misinformed, manipulated, or on a power trip, had, regardless, promoted the tests at Bikini Atoll.

Sincerely,

Brett M. Condon November 5, 2002

Abstract

Brett M. Condon in his paper, The Controversy of Operation Crossroads: A Post-WWII Nuclear Weapons Test, describes the post World War II tests of the atom bomb on the island of Bikini Atoll and the shocking mistakes made by...

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