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Product: SpongeBob Appreciation Day: Patchy's Beach Bash!
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Product: Operation Crossroads
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Product: 2 Headed Shark Attack
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Product: Infamous Places - Watts Riots, Los Angeles and Bikini Atoll
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Product: The Marshall Islands
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Product: Deadly Fathoms: Expedition team dives at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on American, German and Japanese WWII warships that were sunk by atom bomb ... WWII. (Expedition to Adventure Book 1)
Description: In 1946 the U.S. Navy conducted 'Operation Crossroads' at Bikini Lagoon in the Marshall Islands. They placed dozens of old American, German and Japanese WWII warships (battleships, aircraft carriers, submarines, freighters, troop transports, heavy cruisers), in Bikini Lagoon and subjected them to multiple atom blasts tests..
Prior to the tests they loaded each ship full of fuel and ammunition, trying to replicate wartime conditions, so they could see what would happen to the ships when they were hit by a nuclear explosion. The Navy didn't put any people on the ships, but they did place many live animals in crates on the ships, so they could see what would happen when they became contaminated by radiation poisoning from the atomic blasts.
During the first test which they called 'Able', a B-29 dropped a bomb from a height of 500 feet over the target area. Surprisingly, not many ships were sunk during this first atomic blast. The Navy then conducted a second test two weeks later which they called 'Baker'. During this test they hung a bomb 50 feet under a small landing craft before detonating it. When the atomic device exploded it sent a huge column of water and island debris into the air, which did sink many of the huge ships. No trace of the small landing craft was ever found. Because of strong and lingering radiation almost all of the ships had to be towed to a deep part of the Pacific Ocean and sunk. Also, because of the radiation contamination, all the Bikini people who had to leave their atoll before the tests, were never able to return.
When I tried to get government officials to give me permission to take a team of divers and film-makers to Bikini, so I could produce a film about diving on ships at Bikini sunk by atom bomb testing, the officials never actually gave me permission. Always believing the glass is half-full, I reasoned they might not have said "yes", but they also didn't say "no".
So, I put together an expedition team and flew over to Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands. We rented an island freighter called the "Mieco Queen", then went on a wonderful dive trip to Wotje Atoll, Kwajalein Atoll and finally Bikini Atoll.
At Wotje, we dove on a Japanese freighter that had never been dived on before. I also dove on a Japanese Kawaneshi Flying Boat that was sunk 50-feet deep in Wotje Lagoon.
At Kwajalein we dove on the German Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen, which was the sister ship of the German Battleship Bismarc.
Then at Bikini we had to fight deadly radiation and sharks, but were able to dive on the U.S. Battleship Arkansas, the Japanese Battleship Nagato (which was Admiral Yamamoto's Flagship when he attacked Pearl Harbor) and we dove on the U.S. Aircraft Carrier Saratoga. She was sitting right-side-up on the bottom, so we could land our two wet-subs on her flight deck, just like Hellcats did during WWII. In Saratoga's hanger deck our divers were able to sit in several of the Hellcats that were still tied down in place even after being subjected to two atom bomb tests.
I produced a film when I returned home called "Deadly Fathoms" which featured famed film star and 'Twilight Zone' producer Rod Serling. My film "Deadly Fathoms" won a Silver Medal at the Atlanta International Film Festival.
I think you'll like to read about how we did survive the radiation, sharks and multiple deep dives into Bikini Lagoon...and lived to talk about it!

Mike Harris
Producer-Director
Expedition Leader
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Product: Nuclear Dawn: The Atomic Bomb, from the Manhattan Project to the Cold War
Description: The obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 brought the world to a stand still. This unimaginable shock confirmed to the world that the race to develop a working atomic weapon during World War II had been won by the American-led international effort. Horrific and controversial even today, these first uses of the atomic bomb had intense ramifications not only on the continued development of the bomb, but also on politics and popular culture. As well as the technological development, historian James Delgado also examines how the US Army Air Force had to develop the capacity to deliver the weapons, and examines the sites where development and testing took place, in order to give a comprehensive history of the dawning of the nuclear age.
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Product: Enola Gay: Mission to Hiroshima
Description: From theNew York Times–bestselling coauthors: A “fascinating . . . unrivaled” history of the B-29 and its fateful mission to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (The New York Times Book Review).

Painstakingly researched, the story behind the decision to send the Enola Gay to bomb Hiroshima is told through firsthand sources. From diplomatic moves behind the scenes to Japanese actions and the US Army Air Force’s call to action, no detail is left untold.

Touching on the early days of the Manhattan Project and the first inkling of an atomic bomb, investigative journalist Gordon Thomas and his writing partner Max Morgan-Witts, take WWII enthusiasts through the training of the crew of the Enola Gay and the challenges faced by pilot Paul Tibbets.

A page-turner that offers “minute-by-minute coverage of the critical periods” surrounding the mission, Enola Gay finally separates myth and reality from the planning of the flight to the moment over Hiroshima when the atomic age was born (Library Journal).
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Product: Diving The Nuclear Fleet at the Bikini Atoll
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Product: Radio Bikini
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Product: For the Good of Mankind: A History of the People of Bikini and their Islands
Brand: Bravo Publishing
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Product: Nuclear test Environment: Marshall Islands. Bikini Atoll, Enewetak Atoll, Rongelap Atoll, Utrōk Atoll
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Product: Operation Crossroads: The Atomic Tests at Bikini Atoll
Brand: Brand: Naval Institute Press
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History
Weapons
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Product: Operation Crossroads - Lest We Forget!: An Eyewitness Account, Bikini Atomic Bomb Tests 1946
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Product: Ghost Fleet: The Sunken Ships of Bikini Atoll
Brand: Brand: University of Hawaii Press
Description: In July 1946 a fleet of 242 ships, among them some of the most famous of World War II, assembled within the lagoon of Bikini Atoll, 4,500 miles from San Francisco. There, in a massive military effort dubbed Operation Crossroads, thousands of scientists and U.S. military personnel gathered to assess the atomic bomb's effect on warships in the world's first nuclear weapons tests.

Four decades later, in 1989, a highly trained team of underwater archaeologists returned to Bikini to evalu-ate the ships as historic and archaeological sites and as potential diving attractions. In Ghost Fleet, author James Delgado, a member of that team, offers a fascinating account of Operation Crossroads and the forgotten remains that have turned Bikini's lagoon into a vast underwater ghost town.
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Product: The Bomb
Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
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