During the arms race with the Soviet Union, the U.S. Even if the contamination eventually fades, little will reverse the damage of the testing conducted over the years. Recently, the islands have been opened for diving and sport fishing, allowing people to search some of the remaining wreckage of the tests. Also, many of the soldiers working on the test were in direct contact with contaminated water in the lagoon, and over the years have reported numerous health problems related to their exposure. Over years of testing nuclear and thermonuclear weapons near Bikini, it was declared unfit for subsistence farming and fishing, and determined to be uninhabitable. Bikini's native residents agreed to evacuate the island, and many were relocated to the Rongerik Atoll. There were several negative effects on human life resulting from these tests as well. The pig was later given to the Smithsonian's National Zoological Park, were it became a popular heroine of atomic survival, despite becoming completely sterile. One little pig, named #311, managed to make it off of the Japanese test ship, named the Sakawa, and was later found swimming in the lagoon. However, many more animals died days later from radiation, and a number of surviving animals were later killed as part of scientific testing. Because ABLE was off its mark, producing a smaller explosion, and the spread out nature of the ships, the immediate blast killed about 10% of the animals. Hundreds of animals including goats, pigs, guinea pigs, mice and rats, had been placed on 22 target ships in stations normally occupied by soldiers, and were held in place by small frames and cages. The ABLE test included a greater number and variety of animals for testing. Both test incorporated animals to test the effects of exposure to the bomb and the resulting radiation. Assembled in Bikini Lagoon, the fleet was hit with the two (ABLE and BAKER) detonations of plutonium implosion-type nuclear weapons.
The purpose the Crossroads operation was to investigate the effect of nuclear weapons on a fleet of 95 target ships.
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