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Operation Crossroads Declassified Documents
21 declassified records on Operation Crossroads, dated 1946 to 1985, released by the U.S. Department of Energy. The documents below have plain-English summaries. Every record links to its original scan.
Documents with summaries
Nov 22, 1946 · 15pGeneral Radiological Safety Precautions, Crossroads Vessels: Decontamination ProceduresA 1946 US Navy report on measuring and scrubbing radioactive contamination off the non-target ships that entered Bikini Lagoon after the atomic bomb tests.May 12, 1976 · 2pLetter to L. J. Deal on the Bikini (Crossroads) Ships, Marshall IslandsA May 1976 ERDA letter looking for a federal agency to pay for a condition survey of the warships sunk at Bikini during Operation Crossroads.
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- Dec 31, 1946Operation Crossroads Official Report Task Unit 1.52 Report
- Apr 4, 19561190TH AEC Meeting - AEC 787/26 - Special Observer Program for Operation Redwing ( PP. 2-8 ) Meeting minutes
- Apr 10, 1946Memo to R a Larkin, Subject: Atc Transportation Deadline Arrival Dates of Crossroads Personnel Correspondence
- Aug 27, 1946Memo to S L Warren, Subject: Observations and Suggestions Resulting from Participation in Test Able and Test Baker ( Crossroads ) Correspondence
- Aug 31, 1946Logbook of the U.s.s. Benevolence, Ah-13, Commanded by E P Creehan, Attached to Service Div 11, JTF 1 Fleet, Commencing 1 August to 31 August, 1946 ( Crossroads Operation ) Field log book
- Mar 15, 1946TWX, Subject: Request Twenty Three Milograms Radium Source Correspondence
- Nov 15, 1946( Request for ) Limits for Decontamination of Non-Target Crossroads Vessels Correspondence
- Jan 6, 1947Hazards from Residual Radioactivity on the Crossroads Target Vessels Correspondence
- Jan 21, 1947Memorandum to Distribution, Subject: Safety Regulations for Work in Target Vessels Formerly JTF-1 ( Crossroads ) ( DNA-6032F-C.0.27 ) Correspondence
- Jan 30, 1947Letter to DR Bacher, Subject: Symposium on the Technical Results of Operation Crossroads at the National Academy of Sciences ( Encl: Program for Crossroads Symposium ) Correspondence
- Jan 1, 1953Multiple Certificates of Destruction of Classified Records. Documents Referring to Windstorm, Greenhouse, Crossroads Certificate
- Jan 1, 1958Technical Inspection Report - Operation Crossroads Picture (photograph
- Aug 23, 1973Memo for the Record, Subject: Naval Vessels Sunk During Operation Crossroads Correspondence
- Apr 5, 1984Fact Sheet: Operation Crossroads Fact sheet
- Jan 1, 1985Improvements Needed in Estimating Personnel Radiation Exposures from the 1946 Nuclear Test--Operation Crossroads Draft;report
- UndatedTWX, Subject: Report on Samples Sent from Radsafe Bikini Correspondence
- UndatedPersonnel for Radiation Safety Section Listing
- UndatedTWX to Newburger, Et Al, Subject: Monitoring Instruction and Orientation in Connection with Crossroads Correspondence
- UndatedNeutron Dosage from Sulphur Phosphate Pills ( Operation Crossroads ) Appendix
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