Immediately after WWII, the U.S. decided it needed to test what the atomic bomb would do to its naval fleet; ships and personnel. According to Bob Hope, "We located the one spot on earth that hadn't been touched by war and blew it to hell". Cheryl LeJune, ALL member, discussed the lead-up to the testing, the events that transpired in the first Bikini testing, Operation Crossroads, and the ongoing issues from that period of our history.
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