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First Pictures Atomic Blast!, 1946/07/08 (1946).
'The dramatic film history of the atom bomb test at Bikini!
Pictures of the actual bomb drop! Blasted ships and the terrible
destructive force of the world's fourth atom bomb! Universal
Newsreel, in cooperation with the Army and Navy, presents the
motion picture drama, 'Operation Crossroads.' This film record of
the historical event shows in dramatic detail the various phases of
the epochal experiment, from takeoff to the awful blast that
destroyed or damaged more than half the ships in Bikini Lagoon."
scenes of Admiral William H. Blandy commanding Operation Crossroads
at Bikini Lagoon, test animals put on ships, sheep is sheared,
Secretary of Navy Forrestal speaks on deck of ship (sound
distorted), crews leave, Bikini fleet ready, A-bomb loaded on B-29
Dave's Dream, plane takes off, bomb doors open, men put on
protective goggles; "The bomb's away! It's falling ... " then
explosion, "motion picture spectacle of all time" and another view
of the explosion. (complete newsreel)'.
http://www.archive.org/details/1946-07-08_First_Pictures_Atomic_Blast
Mortality of Veteran Participants in the Crossroads Nuclear
Test / J. Christopher Johnson, Susan Thaul, William F. Page,
and Harriet Crawford, Editors; Committee on the CROSSROADS Nuclear
Test, Institute of Medicine. 1996.
Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site: The First
Decade. / John C. Hopkins and Barbara Killian. Defense Threat
Reduction Agency, 2011. - 662 s.
- http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a552638.pdf
United States Nuclear Tests,
July 1945 through September 1992.
U.S. Department of Energy Nevada Operations Office, DOE/NV--209-REV
15, December 2000.
National Park Service : The Archeology of the Atomic Bomb -
A Submerged Cultural Resources Assessment of the Sunken Fleet of
Operation Crossroads at Bikini and Kwajalein Atoll Lagoons
(1991).
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http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/swcrc/37/contents.htm
Operation Crossroads (Part I) (1946).
http://www.archive.org/details/Operatio1946
Operations Crossroads Underway, 1946/07/01 (1946).
http://www.archive.org/details/1946-07-01_Operations_Crossroads_Underway
U.S. Army Air Forces: Special Delivery (1946) - 'Airplanes
and missions of the U.S. Army Air Forces, emphasizing Operation
Crossroads'. - http://www.archive.org/details/SpecialD1946
United States. Joint Task Force One; Shurcliff, William A.:
Bombs at Bikini; the official report of Operation Crossroads
(1947).
http://www.archive.org/details/bombsatbikinioff00unit
Treasure Island Naval Station : Historical Radiological
Assessment.
- Vallejo, California : Weston Solutions, Inc. - 2006. - 250
pp.
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http://www.bracpmo.navy.mil/base_docs/treasure_island/documents/enviro_docs/FinalTI_HRAFeb2006.pdf
Trouble in Paradise: Postwar History of San Francisco’s
Hunters Point Neighborhood : An Honors Thesis in Urban Studies,
Stanford University / Submitted by Kelsey Finch. May 19, 2008. - 65
pp.
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http://www.stanford.edu/dept/URBS/programs/documents/kfinch_honorsthesis_compressed.pdf
United States. Joint Task Force One: Operation Crossroads, the
official pictorial record (1946).
http://www.archive.org/details/operationcrossro00unit