Talk:Operation Castle

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This article states that operation crosswinds consisted of the third and fourth atomic weapons. Shouldn't this be the fourth and fifth?

1st: The Trinity test bomb. 2nd: The Hiroshima bomb. 3rd: The Nagasaki bomb.

Bigstape 23:58, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Yep, that's what the operation crosswinds page says. I've made the change. My first Wikipedia edit! Yay me!

Bigstape 00:03, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Crossroads. But sure, I suppose it comes down to whether one considers "Trinity" a "weapon" or not, but the distinction is not incredibly important IMO. --Fastfission 00:09, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, if Trinity was not a weapon, then neither were the crossROADs (my bad) tests. Nitpickers to the fore! Bigstape 00:54, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] To Do...

I've rated this article as a "start" since it is an ovbiously complex matter and there's a lot of detail either absent or not receiving appropriate visibility. Just as a notional list of things which should probably get some attention:

JTF-7 assets (air/afloat)
Preperation of Bikini (infrastructure)
Post-Bravo/post-Castle security zone expansion
AEC/Strauss revisions to "go/no-go" criteria post-bravo
Fallout identification vice residual radiation
Summary of, and linkage, to Lucky Dragon (whole other project to complete that one)
Public reaction through September 1954 in light of Lewis Strauss's comments of 31 March
Collapse of the Japanese fishing markets
US-Japan relations and the 'ex-gratia' settlement
Marshall Islander's letter to the UN on 24 April, and the hearings