Original Colour Film of Baker Atom Bomb at Bikini Atoll 1946
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Date time (UTC): July 24, 1946 21:34:59.8
Location: NE Lagoon, Bikini Atoll °N °E
Elevation Height: 0 - 27.5 m (90 ft)
Delivery: Underwater
Purpose: Weapon effect
Device: Mk III “Helen of Bikini“
Yield: 23 kt
In Baker on July 25, the weapon was suspended beneath landing craft LSM-60 anchored in the midst of the target fleet. Baker was detonated 90 feet (27 m) underwater, halfway to the bottom in water 180 feet (55 m) deep. How/Mike Hour was 08:35. No identifiable part of LSM-60 was ever found; it was presumably vaporized by the nuclear fireball. Ten ships were sunk, including the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, which sank in December, five months after the test, because radioactivity prevented repairs to a leak in the hull.
Photographs of Baker are unique among nuclear detonation pictures. The blinding flash that usually obscures the target area took place underwater and was barely seen. The clear image of ships in the foreground and background gives a sense of scale. The large Wilson cloud and the vertical water column are distinctive Baker shot features. One picture shows a mark where the 27,000 ton battleship USS Arkansas was.
As with Able, any ships that remained afloat within 1,000 yards (914 m) of the detonation were
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