6/30/46 OPERATION CROSSROADS TARGET SUBMARINE USS PARCHE, \"A-BOMB\" CACHET Cover
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6/30/46 OPERATION CROSSROADS TARGET SUBMARINE USS PARCHE, \"A-BOMB\" CACHET Cover:
$69.99
1946 USS Parche Atomic Age Scientific Demo, Submarine Oper. Crossroads \"A BOMB\"! Beautiful Ship & A-BOMB Cancel, Anchor & corner card too! With this sale you WILL receive THE ACTUAL EXHIBIT PAGE with the cover. Ex-Spooner, the exhibitor of this collection!Click Here for Her Wiki-History!
The items I\'m offering represent an outstanding and important postal history collection tracing the development of America\'s nuclear capabilities. Items I will be offering will include covers from the followingtopics from within the exhibit. This list is ACTUALLY the 1st page of the exhibit!
Once sold, these items will be scattered and in private hands for eternity. Now is your chance to have them in your own collection! Don\'t miss out! This is TRUE Postal, Atomic, & Nuclear History!
Click Here for biographic info on Major General Kenneth D. Nichols
More info--Maj. Gen. Kenneth D. Nichols, an Army engineer who supervised the construction of the plants that produced the nuclear fuel for the first atomic bombs, died on Monday at a retirement home in Bethesda, Md. He was 92. In 1942, General Nichols, who also helped establish the nation\'s early military and civilian nuclear policies, joined the Manhattan Project, the group assigned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to build an atomic bomb. He began on the project as a lieutenant colonel and a deputy district engineer but quickly became district engineer and a full colonel. Later, he was promoted to brigadier general, reporting directly to Gen. Leslie R. Groves, who was in charge of the project. General Nichols oversaw a civilian and military work force of about 125,000 and was largely responsible for the construction of the nuclear sites in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Hanford, Wash. He was also responsible for intelligence and security operations that kept the development of the atomic bomb secret.
After World War II, General Nichols stayed with the Manhattan Project, which was taken over by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1947. The next year, after briefly teaching at West Point, where he had taught earlier, he was promoted to major general and became chief of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, responsible for atomic weapons logistics and training. He was also appointed deputy director for the Atomic Energy Matters, Plans and Operations Division of the Army\'s general staff, and was the senior Army member of the military liaison committee that worked with the Atomic Energy Commission. In 1950, General Nichols became deputy director of the guided missiles division of the Department of Defense. He was appointed chief of research and development when the Army reorganized in January 1952. In 1953, he became the general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission, where he promoted the construction of nuclear power plants and was a liaison with the military. He left the commission in 1955 and became a consultant for many corporations. As part of a series of US nuclear weapon tests known as Operation Crossroads in 1946, a 23-kilotun nuke called Baker was blasted at about 90 feet underwater at Bikini Atoll and caused a tidal wave that reached over 2 miles high. The images that resulted from the test are breathtaking, both in the beautiful and terrifying sense. The vertical movement of such an immense body of water, shape-shifting from a dome to a mushroom cloud, is somewhat operatic. However, zooming in closer and seeing the naval ships being lifted by an unruly mass of nature like a few fragile toys is a frightening sight. This particular explosion, the second and last detonation in Crossroads, was the first to ever be tested underwater and the result was extraordinarily devastating. So much so that the third blast, Charlie, scheduled to go off in 1947 was cancelled because naval ships were still having trouble decontaminating from Baker\'s test. Luckily, the area near the explosion, the island of Bikini, was evacuated before the massive burst. Many images were taken miles away.
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6/30/46 OPERATION CROSSROADS TARGET SUBMARINE USS PARCHE, \"A-BOMB\" CACHET Cover:
$69.99