The March 1946 All Hands Bulletin article “Facing the Atomic Age” examined how the Navy was grappling with the strategic implications of nuclear weapons following Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As the service prepared for Operation Crossroads — the first postwar nuclear weapons tests planned for Bikini Atoll that summer — naval planners confronted fundamental questions about the future of fleet warfare, ship design, and naval doctrine in an era defined by atomic weapons.
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