Utility trailer wiring and Marshall Islands Atomic bomb testing
Posted By RichC on September 3, 2024
Operation Crossroads Baker in 1946
Besides mowing the front lawn last Friday night (practically in the dark) and much of Saturday in the backyard, I did find time to replace the old cracked tires and rewire the “old” long ago broken lights on the Bame Utility trailer.
On a book reading side note, I’m on a multi-year (decade) trend of studying WW2 military history. As the war in the Pacific Ocean inched casualty upon casualty in the U.S. island hopping campaign towards Japan, I’m entering the atomic era which eventually ended the war by using “the A-Bombs “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” resulting in Japan’s surrender.
In the more current read of “Nuclear War: A Scenario” by Annie Jacobsen, the reading had me sidestepping to look up satellite visuals of what we can see is left from Pacific test sites … images from Enewetak Atoll and the clean-up dome on Runit Island. It is amazing that after 80 years of being in the atomic age that man has not wiped out the entire world.
It is also interesting that “a report by the US Congressional Research Service projects that the majority of the atoll will be fit for human habitation by 2026–2027, after nuclear decay, de-contamination and environmental remediation efforts create sufficient dose reductions.” (Wikipedia link/quote … if you trust it?)
