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- Code Number:
- MYED01_033B
- Title:
- Atomic Bomb Test in Bikini Atoll, Operation Crossroads Baker, Micronesia, 25 July 1946
- This image is hand tinted by Wernher Krutein.
This is the "Baker" explosion, part two of Operation Crossroads, a nuclear weapon test by the United States military at Bikini Atoll, Micronesia, on 25 July 1946. The wider, exterior cloud is actually just a condensation cloud caused by the Wilson chamber effect, and existed for a very short amount of time. There was no classic mushroom cloud rising to the stratosphere, but inside the condensation cloud at the top of the water geyser formed a mushroom-like head called the cauliflower shape, which fell back into the lagoon (compare with this image, a photo taken slightly later, after the condensation cloud had cleared). The water raised into the atmosphere by the explosion was highly radioactive and contaminated many of the ships that were closest to the explosion. Ships further out were otherwise undamaged and subsequently sent to Hunter's Point in San Francisco, California, for decontamination. Those vessels which could not be decontaminated were sunk a number of miles off the coast of San Francisco near Farallon Island. - Keywords:
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