He named it after Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, the site of the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon tests in July that year.

* 1946 – Operation Crossroads: an atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.

* July 1 – Nuclear testing: Operation Crossroads, a series of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in Micronesia, is initiated by detonation of Able at an altitude of 520 feet ( 158 m ).

** Nuclear testing: In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus USS Saratoga is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, when the United States detonates the Baker device during Operation Crossroads.

* was a battleship, commissioned in 1916, damaged in the attack on Pearl Harbor, repaired and served during World War II, used as a target for Operation Crossroads after the war in 1946, and finally sunk for practice in 1948

Used as Army / Navy Joint Task Force 1 during Operation Crossroads and then as Task Force 1 during Operation Sea Orbit ( solely U. S. Navy ).

Joint Task Force 1 was the atomic bomb test force during the post-World War II Operation Crossroads.

Crossroads Charlie was rescheduled as Operation Wigwam, a deep water shot conducted in 1955 off the California coast.

Prospective Operation Crossroads target ships and support ships at Pearl Harbor on February 27, 1946.

The Navy won the contest to design and control the tests, and on January 11, 1946, Admiral William H. P. Blandy was appointed head of Army / Navy Joint Task Force One ( JTF-1 ), newly created to conduct the tests which he named Operation Crossroads.

" He imposed a civilian review panel on Operation Crossroads to " convince the public it was objective.

Pressure to cancel Operation Crossroads altogether came from scientists and diplomats.

In 1952, nuclear fallout became a public issue ; since Operation Crossroads, more and more evidence had been leaking out about radiation sickness and death caused by nuclear testing, and Muller was one of the foremost experts.

Later in 1946, the Operation Crossroads nuclear bomb tests were described as having a " cauliflower " cloud, but a reporter present also spoke of " the mushroom, now the common symbol of the atomic age.

Scientists observing the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests in 1946 at Bikini Atoll named that transitory cloud a " Wilson cloud " because of its similarity to a Wilson cloud chamber ; the cloud chamber uses condensation from a rapid pressure drop to mark the tracks of electrically charged subatomic particles.

Operation Crossroads ( Event Baker ), conducted at Bikini Atoll ( 1946 ).

In 1946, as part of Operation Crossroads, the American landing ship demonstrated the potential of explosives ships containing nuclear weapons.

Tests of this nature have usually been conducted to evaluate the effects of nuclear weapons against naval vessels ( such as in Operation Crossroads ), or to evaluate potential sea-based nuclear weapons ( such as nuclear torpedoes or depth-charges ).

Neither country had very many atomic weapons to spare at first, and so testing was relatively infrequent ( when the U. S. used two weapons for Operation Crossroads in 1946, they were detonating over 20 % of their current arsenal ).

" Baker Shot ", part of Operation Crossroads, a nuclear test by the United States at Bikini Atoll in 1946

During the next six months he supported the naval aviation forces in Operation Crossroads nuclear tests on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

Bikini Atoll had previously hosted nuclear testing in 1946 as part of Operation Crossroads where the world ’ s fourth and fifth atomic weapons were detonated in Bikini Lagoon.

He participated in Operation Crossroads, the nuclear weapon tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946, and later the Operation Sandstone tests at Enewetak Atoll in 1948.

Reinhard Heydrich was killed after an attack by British trained Czechoslovak soldiers on behalf of the Czechoslovak government in exile in Operation Anthropoid, and knowledge from decoded transmissions allowed the U. S. to carry out a targeted attack, killing Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto while he was travelling by plane.

Adolf Hitler, meanwhile, was almost killed by his own officers, and survived various attempts by other persons and organizations ( such as Operation Foxley, though this plan was never put into practice ).

In 1986, U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( who survived an assassination attempt himself ) ordered the Operation El Dorado Canyon air raid on Libya in which one of the primary targets was the home residence of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

It was soon used in combat — in March 1986 against a Libyan SA-5 site in the Gulf of Sidra, and then Operation Eldorado Canyon in April.

HARM was used extensively by the United States Navy and the United States Air Force for Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War of 1991.

The occupation of these facilities in October 1943 was codenamed Operation Alacrity by the British.

The most recent overseas operation of the Navy was along the coast of Libya as part of Operation Unified Protector.

He was in command of all Allied ground forces during Operation Overlord from the initial landings until after the Battle of Normandy.

After Gott was killed flying back to Cairo Churchill was persuaded by Brooke, who by this time was Chief of the Imperial General Staff to appoint Montgomery, who had only just been nominated to replace Alexander as commander of the British ground forces for Operation Torch.

The conquest of Libya was essential for airfields to support Malta and to threaten the rear of Axis forces opposing Operation Torch.

The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, was fought between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II, from September – November 1944 on the island of Peleliu, present-day Palau.

In 2002, it was a primary combat zone in Operation Defensive Shield, a major military offensive by the Israeli Defense Forces ( IDF ).

After the Taliban government was toppled during Operation Enduring Freedom, Rabbani returned to Kabul and served as a temporary President from November to December 20, 2001, when Hamid Karzai was chosen at the Bonn International Conference on Afghanistan.

For the next five years he and the Northern Alliance were busy fighting the Taliban until the 2001 US-led Operation Enduring Freedom in which the Taliban government was toppled.

Indeed, the final German blitzkrieg operation in the west, Operation Wacht am Rhein, was planned to take place during poor weather which grounded Allied aircraft.

By the summer of 1944 the reversal of fortune was complete and Operation Bagration saw Soviet forces inflict crushing defeats on Germany through the aggressive use of armour, infantry and air power in combined strategic assault, known as deep operations.

Germany's last offensive on its Western front, Operation Wacht am Rhein, was an offensive launched towards the vital port of Antwerp in December 1944.

Many historians now hold the position that blitzkrieg was not a military theory, and the campaigns conducted by the German military in 1939 to circa, 1942 ( with the exception of Operation Barbarossa ) were improvised invasions put together and modified at the last moment and therefore was not a proper military strategy.

It was only after the Battle of France German thinking reverted to the possibility of a blitzkrieg method for the Balkan Campaign and Operation Barbarossa.