Event

Operation Crossroads

The first U.S. nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, two blasts at Bikini Atoll in July 1946.

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Juda went back to Bikini to see the results of the Baker test Scholarship & press 1

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A history of the people of Bikini following nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands: with recollections and views of elders of Bikini Atoll, Health Physics, vol. 73, no. 1 (July 1997), 1997. Scholarship & press
In July, the Bikinian leader, Juda, traveled with a U.S. government delegation back to Bikini to view the results of the second atom bomb test of Operation Crossroads, code named Baker.
The nuclear legacy of the Bikinians began in March of 1946, when they were first removed from their islands for the preparations of Operation Crossroads.
Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, Final Report, Chapter 12: The Marshallese, U.S. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (copy on the U.S. Department of Energy Openness site), 1995. Primary record
Testing of nuclear weapons began on July 1, 1946, with Operation Crossroads, two tests at Bikini Atoll.

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