7/22/ 16: Here’s an excerpt from today’s posting by the National Security Archive in Washington, DC, under the banner ofOperation Crossroads 70 Years Later:

“Seventy years ago this month a joint U.S Army-Navy task force staged two atomic weapons tests at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the first atomic explosions since the bombings of Japan in August 1945. The first test, Able, took place on 1 July 1946. The second test, Baker, on 25 July 1946, was the most dangerous, contaminating near...