After the Manhattan Project, on which operation did Parsons work?
Operation Crossroads
Operation Overlord
Operation Market Garden
Operation Paperclip
Answer
Parsons worked on Operation Crossroads, a series of nuclear weapon tests in the Marshall Islands in 1946. The tests were designed to study the effects of nuclear weapons on warships and to assess the feasibility of using nuclear weapons in naval warfare. Parsons was the officer in charge of the "Baker" test, the second of the two tests, which involved the detonation of a nuclear weapon underwater.
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