![Three Planes and a Boat to Ground Zero: Diving Bikini Atoll's Nuclear Target Fleet | California Diver Magazine Three Planes and a Boat to Ground Zero: Diving Bikini Atoll's Nuclear Target Fleet | California Diver Magazine](https://californiadiver.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Navy-mk-V-helmet-.jpg)
Three Planes and a Boat to Ground Zero: Diving Bikini Atoll's Nuclear Target Fleet | California Diver Magazine
Atomic Aerials - This ship was built in 1943, is made entirely out of concrete, participated in both atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads, and is still afloat as
![File:Battleship Nagato steams towards Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, in March 1946 (175739069).jpg - Wikimedia Commons File:Battleship Nagato steams towards Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, in March 1946 (175739069).jpg - Wikimedia Commons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Battleship_Nagato_steams_towards_Bikini_Atoll_in_the_Pacific%2C_in_March_1946_%28175739069%29.jpg)
File:Battleship Nagato steams towards Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, in March 1946 (175739069).jpg - Wikimedia Commons
The United States sent large numbers of old WW2 warships to the Bikini Atoll nuclear bomb testing site, where they were destroyed by the bomb tests. Why weren't these warships mothballed, and
![USS Nevada painted orange prior to the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, July 1946. Nevada was the intended aiming point for the B-29 delivering the bomb.[1139x674] : r/WarshipPorn USS Nevada painted orange prior to the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, July 1946. Nevada was the intended aiming point for the B-29 delivering the bomb.[1139x674] : r/WarshipPorn](https://preview.redd.it/uss-nevada-painted-orange-prior-to-the-operation-crossroads-v0-y0a4qgjcfmm91.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=121c214b8484675a9c82c8c97674fcdccbea619e)
USS Nevada painted orange prior to the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, July 1946. Nevada was the intended aiming point for the B-29 delivering the bomb.[1139x674] : r/WarshipPorn
![The original Bikini Atoll target: the fleet of more than 70 warships at anchor in the lagoon..., Stock Photo, Picture And Rights Managed Image. Pic. MEV-10652687 | agefotostock The original Bikini Atoll target: the fleet of more than 70 warships at anchor in the lagoon..., Stock Photo, Picture And Rights Managed Image. Pic. MEV-10652687 | agefotostock](https://previews.agefotostock.com/previewimage/medibigoff/c7955bc8195f84d32548bb7e883b0bbd/mev-10652687.jpg)
The original Bikini Atoll target: the fleet of more than 70 warships at anchor in the lagoon..., Stock Photo, Picture And Rights Managed Image. Pic. MEV-10652687 | agefotostock
![USS Independence was blown up alongside 77 other ships as part of atomic tests at Bikini Atoll | Daily Mail Online USS Independence was blown up alongside 77 other ships as part of atomic tests at Bikini Atoll | Daily Mail Online](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/04/29/19/33A9062E00000578-0-image-a-11_1461953006942.jpg)