Operation Hurricane were considered. The Admiralty suggested that the Monte Bello Islands might be suitable, so the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee, sent a request to the Prime Minister of Australia, Robert Menzies. The Australian government formally agreed to the islands being used as a nuclear test site in May 1951. In February 1952, Attlee's successor, Winston Churchill, announced in the House of Commons that the first British atomic bomb test would occur in Australia before the end of the year. A small fleet was assembled for Operation Hurricane under the command of Rear Admiral A. D. Torlesse; it
Operation Crusader (video game) will [also] be publishing a "second" game from Atomic" centered on the North African Campaign. He speculated that this was "what would be the next "V for Victory" game in an Avalon Hill wrapper". By January 1994, Atomic Games had revealed the "World at War" series as the successor to its "V for Victory" line under Avalon, and its first entry was entitled "Operation Crusader". Alongside "Kingmaker", "Operation Crusader" was one of the first two titles released as part of Avalon Hill's new initiative. The computer game division had previously been known for low-quality titles, a problem that Avalon Hill's