OPERATION 

 CROSSROADS 



fficial PICTORIAL Record 



Foreword by 

 Vice Adm. W. H. P. Blandy 



Prepared and Edited 

 in the Office of the Historian 



The entire world watches with bated 

 breath each new development of the 

 "Miracle of Modern Miracles"-Atomic 

 Energy. Whole peoples stand aghast at 

 the spectre of this mighty Colossus of 

 Power that has such great bearing on the 

 very lives and future of you and your 

 children— that can be the most horrible 

 and devastating weapon of destruction or 

 the greatest tool of modern industry— that 

 can either destroy or revolutionize all 

 civilization. 



Now, in this only pictorial record of its 

 kind, our Government's official Historian 

 of operation crossroads, personally select- 

 ed by Admiral Blandy, Chief of joint 

 task force ONE, gives you the latest per- 

 tinent details of the incredible Atomic 

 Experiments. Shows you, in 228 pictures 

 (scores reclassified from secret files), the 

 most important chapters in the fascinating 

 Bikini Atom Bomb tests. Tells you, in 

 the most startling, pithy word reports 

 ever published, the true behind-the-scenes 

 story of operation crossroads. Reveals the 

 true purposes and aims of our United 

 States in developing Atomic Energy. 



No one really interested in the future 

 can help but profit by this revealing offi- 

 cial report on the greatest man-made ex- 

 plosions in all history. 



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