"Joseph Testagrose" <Joet5@optonline.net> wrote in message
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Independence_%28CVL-22%29
"She would finish her operational duty off the coast of Japan supporting
occupation forces until being assigned to return American veterans back to
the United States as part of Operation Magic Carpet.
Independence was later used for testing during Operation Crossroads. After
being transported back to Pearl Harbor and San Francisco for study, she was
later sunk with nuclear waste near the Farallon Islands. Her sinking is
considered at fault for the contamination of the wildlife refuge in the
area."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads
"Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg, the longest-serving chairman of the Atomic Energy
Commission, called Baker "the world's first nuclear disaster."[1]"
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