Operation Crossroad

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Across
  1. 2. Three Bikini families returned in 1974 but were evacuated again in 1978 because of radioactivity in their bodies from four years of eating __________ food
  2. 3. The purpose of the tests was to investigate the effect of nuclear weapons on naval equipment
  3. 5. The second test was the bomb was known as Helen of Bikini
  4. 6. A series of large thermonuclear tests rendered Bikini unfit for subsistence farming and fishing contamination
  5. 8. The first island to be publicly announced beforehand and observed by an invited audience, including a large press corps.
Down
  1. 1. A pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United State
  2. 4. In mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinitys
  3. 7. The first bomb was named Gilda after Rita Hayworth's character in the 1946 film Gilda and was dropped from the B-29 Superfortress Dave's Dream of the 509th Bombardment Group on July 1, 1946.