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Credit:
United States Department of Defense
(either the
U.S. Army
or the
U.S. Navy
)
The "Baker" explosion, part of
Operation Crossroads
, a
nuclear weapon test
by the
United States
military
at
Bikini Atoll
,
Micronesia
, on 1946. The wider, exterior cloud is actually just a condensation cloud caused by the
Wilson chamber
effect, and was very brief. The actual
mushroom cloud
is inside the condensation cloud (compare with
this image
, a photo taken slightly later, after the condensation cloud had cleared). The water released by the
explosion
was highly
radioactive
and
contaminated
many of the ships that were set up near it. Some were otherwise undamaged and sent to
Hunter's Point
in
San Francisco
,
California
for decontamination. Those which could not be decontaminated were sunk a number of miles off the coast of San Francisco.
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