Operation Sandstone
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Operation Sandstone was a series of nuclear weapon tests in 1948. It was the third series of American tests, following Trinity in 1945 and Crossroads in 1946, and preceding Ranger. Like the Crossroads
Briefing on the USS Mount McKinley. Pictured are Colonel T. J. Sands, Captain James S. Russell, Dr. D. K. Froman, Brigadier General David A. Ogden, Major General J. D. Barker, Major General W. E. Kepner, Lieutenant General John E. Hull, Rear Admiral William S. Parsons, Rear Admiral Francis C. Denebrink, and Brigadier General Claude B. Ferenbaugh.
A Sikorsky HO3S helicopter picks up water sample from balsa raft attached to a water sample cable
One of the three shot-towers used for the Sandstone-series of tests; unknown device.
Filters are being removed from a US Air Force Boeing B-17 drone after a flight through the radioactive cloud
Kenneth Nichols
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Kenneth David Nichols CBE was an officer in the United States Army, and a civil engineer who worked on the secret Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II. He served as D
Nichols at his desk in 1945
Argonne National Laboratory established in 1946, in DuPage County, Illinois
Y-12 National Security Complex established 1943 at Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Aerial view of the Able mushroom cloud rising from the lagoon with the Bikini Island visible in the background