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MARSHALL INSELN BIKINI ATOLL ATOMBOMBE TEST
Able Day atom bomb test. Blast damage to the conning tower area of USS Skate (SS-305), two days after the aerial burst atom bomb test that took place on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Marshall Islands on 1 July 1946 (local time). This test, codenamed 'Able Day', used a Mark 3 nuclear bomb called 'Gilda'. The explosion was part of a series of tests code-named 'Operation Crossroads'. The yield was thousands of tons of TNT, with a column of water vapour reaching thousands of metres into the air. The aerial Able blast was followed by the underwater Baker blast on 25 July 1946. Photographed on 3 July 1946. (KEYSTONE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/US NAVY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)
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License
Rights Managed
Date created
19460701
Place
MARSHALL ISLANDS
Credit
KEYSTONE
Source
SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY SPL
Byline
US NAVY
Size
3750 x 4707 px
File type
JPEG