Operation Crossroads facts
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During the Operations Crossroads Nuclear Test, much of the ships surrounding the blasts were populated with test animals, many died, except for Pig #311, which was found swimming in the lagoon after the blast, and went on to live at the National Zoo in D.C.
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There was a single plutonium core known as the "Demon Core" that was involved in 2 different criticality incidents, each killing a scientist, and eventually being used in a bomb test with Operation Crossroads
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The battleship USS Arkansas at 560ft and 26,000 tons was photographed oriented completely vertically, having just suffered a nuclear blast during Baker Test of Operation Crossroads
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The Bikini Swimsuit is named for Bikini Atoll, where Operation Crossroads, a series of US atom bomb tests, took place. Designer Luois Reard remarked that "like the bomb, the bikini is small and devastating" and Diana Vreeland described the bikini "as the atom bomb of fashion".
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"more than half of the world's supply of motion picture film" was used to record the nuclear blasts of Operation Crossroads
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The bikini was named after Bikini Atoll, the site of the nuclear weapons testing program Operation Crossroads in 1946
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The Bikini was named after Bikini Atoll, where nuclear testing was conducted as part of Operation Crossroads
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The "Bikini" swimsuit takes it name from the Atoll where the US Navy tested the Atomic Bomb on ships in Operation Crossroads.
