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Shot "Baker" of Operation Crossroads (1946) was the first underwater nuclear explosion, a 21 kiloton underwater nuclear weapons effects test by the US at Bikini Atoll in 1946.  The seawater ejected by this test was highly radioactive and seriously contaminated many of the US Navy ships deployed in the test zone.  Those ships which could not be decontaminated were sunk by the US Navy off the coast of San Francisco. Nuclear Explosion, Operation Barbarossa, Mushroom Cloud, Nuclear Test, Rare Historical Photos, Marshall Islands, Atomic Age, Nuclear Power, Hiroshima

Shot "Baker" of Operation Crossroads (1946) was the first underwater nuclear explosion, a 21 kiloton underwater nuclear weapons effects test by the US at Bikini Atoll in 1946. The seawater ejected by this test was highly radioactive and seriously contaminated many of the US Navy ships deployed in the test zone. Those ships which could not be decontaminated were sunk by the US Navy off the coast of San Francisco.

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