A legacy of Able and Baker. American nuclear detonations in the aftermath of World War Two.
"How the U.S. Is Recovering Oil from a Nuked Warship"
"Prinz Eugen, once the pride of the German Navy, is sitting upside down in the Pacific and threatening to leak."
"The U.S. military is trying to recover the oil form a ship that's been underwater for 72 years. In an interesting twist, it's not even an American warship."
"The United States captured the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen as a war prize after the end of World War II. The Prinz Eugen capsized in 1946 after being nuked—twice—during the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. For decades, experts have feared that the radioactive ship's oil might leak into the Pacific. Now the Pentagon is trying to do something about it."
See this video of Baker. Warships subjected to the nuclear blast clearly visible.
Radioactive oil. There it is in the nutshell. That "fleet" moored and subjected to Able and Baker damaged to a much lesser extent than was anticipated. Warships surviving relatively intact even without a crew to do damage control.
AND NO ONE EVER THOUGHT TO REMOVE THE OIL FROM THE PRINZ EUGEN PRIOR TO ABLE AND BAKER? EVIDENTLY NOT! OTHER WARSHIPS PRESENT ALSO THE SAME PROBLEM.?
Radioactive oil recovered you now have barrels full of the stuff that must be stored in a safe location in perpetuity as they say.
Pay me now or pay me later! Later in this case!
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