80 years ago, the military tested nukes on a fleet

Operation Crossroads saw the first postwar nuclear detonations, as the Army and Navy tried to see what atomic weapons could ...
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Mortality of Veteran Participants in the CROSSROADS Nuclear Test

Chapter 6 describes at length how the participant cohort was defined and assembled for this study. Status as an Operation CROSSROADS participant is the most reliable (though broad) measure of exposure ...
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Eighty Years After the First Nuke Test, the World Is at a Dangerous Crossroads

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Mortality of Veteran Participants in the CROSSROADS Nuclear Test

Verification of the completeness and accuracy of the CROSSROADS participant file is particularly important to this study. In 1989, the Medical Follow-up Agency (MFUA) learned from the Nuclear Test ...