Operasi Crossroads

Operation Crossroads
Awan berbentuk jamur dan cipratan air akibat ledakan nuklir bawah air Baker pada 25 Juli 1946.
Information
Negara	Amerika Serikat
Tempat	NE Lagoon, Bikini Atoll
Periode	1946
Jumlah pengujian	2
Jenis pengujian	Dijatuhkan dari langit ke dasar laut
Kekuatan maks.	23 kiloton TNT (96 TJ)
Kronologi rangkaian uji coba
← Trinity Sandstone →

Operasi Crossroads adalah serangkaian uji coba nuklir yang dilakukan oleh Amerika Serikat di Atol Bikini, Samudera Pasifik, pada musim panas 1946. Tujuan operasi ini adalah untuk menguji pengaruh senjata nuklir terhadap kapal angkatan laut. Tekanan untuk membatalkan operasi ini datang dari para ilmuwan dan diplomat. Para ilmuwan yang terlibat dalam Proyek Manhattan menilai bahwa operasi tersebut tidak perlu dilakukan karena membahayakan lingkungan. Riset yang dilakukan oleh Los Alamos menunjukkan bahwa uji coba ini akan mengubah "kondisi air di sekitar permukaan ledakan menjadi cairan mematikan" akibat radioaktif. Untuk mempersiapkan uji coba ini, penduduk asli Bikini dipindahkan ke pulau-pulau yang lebih kecil dan tidak berpenghuni.^[1]

Bom yang digunakan adalah Baker, senjata 23-kiloton nuklir yang diledakkan di bawah laut Bikini Atoll pada tahun 1946. Kapal laut yang mengambil foto dokumentasi pun relatif dekat, serta tidak diberi perlindungan terhadap dampak ledakan.

Catatan kaki

↑ Niedenthal, Jack (2008), A Short History of the People of Bikini Atoll, diakses tanggal 2009-12-05

Referensi

Bradley, David (1948), No Place to Hide, Boston: Little, Brown, OCLC 622505066
Bulletin Editors (1946), "Operation Crossroads: The Effect of the Atomic Bomb on Naval Power", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, no. Vol. 1, No. 5, February 15. 1946, Chicago, hlm. 1 {{citation}}: |issue= memiliki teks tambahan; |last= memiliki nama generik
Campbell, Richard H. (2005), The Silverplate Bombers: A History and Registry of the Enola Gay and Other B-29s Configured to Carry Atomic Bombs, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, ISBN 0-7864-2139-8, OCLC 58554961
Christman, Albert B. (1998), Target Hiroshima: Deak Parsons and the Creation of the Atomic Bomb, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, ISBN 1-55750-120-3, OCLC 38257982
Compton, Arthur H. (1956), Atomic Quest, New York: Oxford University Press, OCLC 173307
Coster-Mullen, John (2003), Atom Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man, Milwaukee: Self published
Daly, Thomas N. (1986), "Crossroads at Bikini", Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute, no. Vol. 112, No. 7, July 1986, Annapolis, Maryland, hlm. 65–74, ISSN 0041-798X {{citation}}: |issue= memiliki teks tambahan
Davis, Jeffrey (1994), "Bombing Bikini Again (This Time With Money): Decades after their Atoll was Nearly Vaporized by Nuclear Tests, Bikinians Consider Selling their Home to Americans – as an Atomic Theme Park", New York Times Magazine, no. May 1, 1994, New York, ISSN 0028-7822, diakses tanggal November 8, 2009{{citation}}: Pemeliharaan CS1: Tanggal diterjemahkan otomatis (link)
Delgado, James P. (1991), The Archeology of the Atomic Bomb: A Submerged Cultural Resources Assessment of the Sunken Fleet of Operation Crossroads at Bikini and Kwajalein Atoll Lagoons, Santa Fe, New Mexico: National Park Service, ASIN B0014H9NEW, diakses tanggal November 8, 2009{{citation}}: Pemeliharaan CS1: Tanggal diterjemahkan otomatis (link)
Delgado, James P. (1996), Ghost Fleet: The Sunken Ships of Bikini Atoll, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, ISBN 978-0-8248-1864-7
Fletcher, E. Royce (1977), "Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer", dalam Glasstone, Samuel; Dolan, Philip (ed.), The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (Edisi 3rd), Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office: 1977 O-213-794, diakses tanggal Desember 16, 2009{{citation}}: Pemeliharaan CS1: Tanggal diterjemahkan otomatis (link)
Glasstone, Samuel (1967), Sourcebook on Atomic Energy (Edisi 3rd), Huntington, New York: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company, Inc. (1979 reprint edition), ISBN 978-0-88275-898-5
Glasstone, Samuel; Dolan, Philip (1977), The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (Edisi 3rd), Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office: 1977 O-213-794, ISBN 0-16-002036-0
Groves, Leslie (1962), Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project, New York: Harper, ISBN 0-306-70738-1, OCLC 537684 {{citation}}: Ketidakcocokan ISBN / tanggal
Hansen, Chuck (1995), Volume VII: The Development of US Nuclear Weapons, Swords of Armageddon: US Nuclear Weapons Development since 1945, Sunnyvale, California: Chukelea Publications, ISBN 978-0-9791915-1-0, OCLC 231585284
Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (1996), Thaul, William; Page, William F.; Crawford, Harriet (ed.), The Five Series Study: Mortality of Veteran Participants in the CROSSROADS Nuclear Test: Study pursuant to 1983 Public Law 98–160, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, ISBN 978-0-585-14895-3, OCLC 43477109, diakses tanggal Mei 16, 2009{{citation}}: Pemeliharaan CS1: Tanggal diterjemahkan otomatis (link)
Life Editors (1947), "What Science Learned at Bikini", Life, no. Vol. 23, No. 16, August 11, 1947, New York, hlm. 74–85, ISSN 0024-3019 {{citation}}: |issue= memiliki teks tambahan; |last= memiliki nama generik
Navy History and Heritage Command (2002), Operation Crossroads: Fact Sheet, Washington, DC, diarsipkan dari asli tanggal Oktober 24, 2012, diakses tanggal Januari 1, 2008{{citation}}: Pemeliharaan CS1: Lokasi tanpa penerbit (link) Pemeliharaan CS1: Tanggal diterjemahkan otomatis (link)
Newson, Henry W. (1945), Memorandum to Norris Bradbury, December 17, 1945, Possible Difficulties in Naval Tests, Los Alamos, New Mexico: Los Alamos National Laboratory, DOE/CIC 120851
Oertling, Thomas James (1996), Ships' Bilge Pumps: a History of their Development, 1500–1900, Vancouver, BC: Texas A&M University Press, ISBN 978-0-89096-722-5
Peterson, Howard C. (1946), Memorandum to General J. Lawton Collins, February 12, 1946, Washington, DC: Records of the Office of the Secretary of War, RG 107 (Atomic Energy Folder), National Archives
Shurcliff, William A. (1946), Operation Crossroads: The Official Pictorial Record, New York: William H. Wise and Co., OCLC 1223420, diakses tanggal Desember 14, 2009{{citation}}: Pemeliharaan CS1: Tanggal diterjemahkan otomatis (link)
Shurcliff, William A. (1947), Bombs at Bikini: The Official Report of Operation Crossroads, New York: William H. Wise and Co., OCLC 1492066, diakses tanggal Desember 14, 2009{{citation}}: Pemeliharaan CS1: Tanggal diterjemahkan otomatis (link)
Strauss, Lewis (1962), Men and Decisions, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, OCLC 456825
Szilard, Leo (1978), Weart, Spencer R.; Szilard, Gertrude Weiss (ed.), Leo Szilard: his Version of the Facts: Selected Recollections and Correspondence, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, Bibcode:1979lshv.book.....W, ISBN 978-0-262-69070-6
Warren, Stafford L. (1947), "Conclusions: Tests Proved Irresistible Spread of Radioactivity", Life, no. Vol. 23, No. 16, August 11, 1947, New York, hlm. 86, 88 {{citation}}: |issue= memiliki teks tambahan
Waters, Odale D., Jr. (1986), "Crossroads: A Tin Can Perspective", Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute, no. Vol. 112, No. 7, July 1986, Annapolis, Maryland, hlm. 72–74, ISSN 0041-798X {{citation}}: |issue= memiliki teks tambahanPemeliharaan CS1: Banyak nama: daftar penulis (link)
Weisgall, Jonathan (1994), Operation Crossroads: The Atomic Tests at Bikini Atoll, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, ISBN 978-1-55750-919-2

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Operations Crossroads (1949) tersedia untuk unduhan gratis di Internet Archive
Atom Test Nears, 1946/06/13 (1946) tersedia untuk unduhan gratis di Internet Archive
Operations Crossroads Underway, 1946/07/01 (1946) tersedia untuk unduhan gratis di Internet Archive
First Pictures Atomic Blast!, 1946/07/08 (1946) tersedia untuk unduhan gratis di Internet Archive
Nuclear Test Film – Project Crossroads tersedia untuk unduhan gratis di Internet Archive (42m32s)
Atom Bomb (Joe Bonica's Movie of the Month) (ca. 1955) tersedia untuk unduhan gratis di Internet Archive

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