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Operation Crossroads - Able 001
1946 Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
This image documents Operation Crossroads, the series of US nuclear weapons tests conducted at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in 1946. It specifically relates to the first test in the series, codenamed Able, an early postwar demonstration of atomic weaponry.
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