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English: The Baker shot of Operation Crossroads, Bikini Atoll, July 25, 1946. As the spray column collapses a 900-foot-tall "base surge" of radioactive mist envelops the target ships. Ship in the foreground (left) is the Japanese battleship Nagato.
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Source W.A.Schurcliff, Historian, Joint Task Force One, Bombs at Bikini: the Official Report of Operation Crossroads , 1947, plate 28.
Author Anonymous military photographer
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