U.S. GOVERNMENT NAVY
U.S. GOVERNMENT NAVY

Underwater Atomic Bomb Test, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, August 1946

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U.S. GOVERNMENT NAVY
Underwater Atomic Bomb Test, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, August 1946
gelatin silver print
various annotations in pencil/ink, date stamps, typed credit, date and caption on collection label affixed (on the reverse of the mount)
image: 8 7/8 x 18 1/8in. (22.5 x 46cm.)
mount: 9 7/8 x 19in. (25.2 x 48.3cm.)
Literature
National Geographic Image Collection, National Geographic Society, 2009, pp. 372-373.

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At the base of the column of water, in the left foreground is the U.S.S. Cruiser, Salt Lake City, and in the right foreground is the Japanese battleship, Nagato.

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