Word: bikini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While plain civilians watched with fascinated concern, Army and Navy men got ready to explode the fourth atomic bomb. If the thing acted in the pattern of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they had picked a good, safe spot-Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, over 4,000 mi. from the U.S. shore. Wildlife lovers were disturbed. But Hanson Baldwin pointed out in the New York Times: "Great numbers of fish and birds will be killed . . . but they will die that man may live...
...operation would be known as "Crossroads." In the task force would be a fleet of 50 ships, with 20,000 sailors, Army airmen, scientists, Congressmen and 150 newsmen. In early May, under Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy, the force would deploy expectantly around Bikini...