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finally ditch bad coffee. You'll thank yourself every morning. At 9 in the morning, on July

1st, 1946, Major Harold Wood, Bombadier of the B-29 Super Fortress, Dave's Dream, peered through his bomb site at a massive fleet of warships gathered below.

As the crosshairs fell over his target, he released his weapon, and the pilot, Major Woodrow Swancut, pulled the aircraft into a sharp turn.

Seconds later, a blinding flash filled the air as an atomic bomb detonated over the turquoise waters of the Pacific.

This was not some alternate timeline where the nascent Cold War suddenly went hot, but rather an elaborate test dubbed Abel,

part of a larger series of nuclear experiments called Operation Crossroads, carried out at Bikini Aetll in the Marshall Islands. And while the target fleet

included several former Axis ships, including the Japanese battleship Nagato and the German

heavy cruiser Prince Eugene, the vast majority were American, a motley array of obsolete battleships,

cruisers, destroyers, submarines, landing craft, and various auxiliary vessels. And at the very center of the

assembly, painted bright orange to serve as an aiming point, was a truly remarkable vessel,

the battleship USS Nevada. A revolutionary design when she entered service in 1916, Nevada was

present at Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941, when a surprise attack

by the Imperial Japanese Navy marked the ascendancy of the aircraft carrier over the battleship.

And now at the end of her career, she bore witness to another technological revolution,

the dawning of the atomic age.

This is the remarkable story of the USS Nevada, a ship that served through one of the most eventful periods in the history of naval warfare.

USS Nevada, BB 36, was laid down on November 4th, 1912 at the Four River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts,

the third U.S. Navy vessel to be named after the 36th state.

At the time of her construction,

Nevada represented a revolution in battleship design, likened by many contemporary commentators

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