The April 1946 All Hands article “Backstage at Bikini” took readers behind the scenes of the preparations for Operation Crossroads, the joint Army–Navy atomic weapons test series planned for the summer of 1946 at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The article described the logistical and organizational challenges of assembling the target fleet — including captured German and Japanese warships — and preparing for the unprecedented nuclear tests that would reshape postwar naval doctrine.
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