![Operation Crossroads: Battleships vs Atomic bombs - Nuclear Companion: A nuclear guide to the cold war Operation Crossroads: Battleships vs Atomic bombs - Nuclear Companion: A nuclear guide to the cold war](https://cdn-nuclearcomp.pressidium.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/operation-crossroads-able-target-fleet-1024x551.png)
Operation Crossroads: Battleships vs Atomic bombs - Nuclear Companion: A nuclear guide to the cold war
Atomic Aerials - This ship was built in 1943, is made entirely out of concrete, participated in both atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads, and is still afloat as
![USS Independence was blown up alongside 77 other ships as part of atomic tests at Bikini Atoll | Daily Mail Online USS Independence was blown up alongside 77 other ships as part of atomic tests at Bikini Atoll | Daily Mail Online](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/04/29/21/33AA8A7200000578-0-image-a-3_1461960777088.jpg)
USS Independence was blown up alongside 77 other ships as part of atomic tests at Bikini Atoll | Daily Mail Online
![Scientists find sunken radioactive aircraft carrier that served in Bikini Atoll bomb tests | CTV News Scientists find sunken radioactive aircraft carrier that served in Bikini Atoll bomb tests | CTV News](https://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1.2332790.1472067736!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_1020/image.jpg)
Scientists find sunken radioactive aircraft carrier that served in Bikini Atoll bomb tests | CTV News
![Former Japanese battleship "Nagato" steams towards Bikini Atoll for Operation Crossroads/Atomic Bomb Test - 1946 [1830 x 1430] : r/WarshipPorn Former Japanese battleship "Nagato" steams towards Bikini Atoll for Operation Crossroads/Atomic Bomb Test - 1946 [1830 x 1430] : r/WarshipPorn](https://preview.redd.it/5jfzb4dvw4851.jpg?auto=webp&s=d4250c653c4a60ffb73cafecd7b6f84ad1474464)