Original Bikini Atoll Baker Bomb Test Exp. 2 Photograph
- 1946
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10 x 8 inches ~ (25 x 20 cm)$315
- Silver Gelatin Print
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DBCR-TI-I-318-EXP#2, Bikini Atoll, AF434-6
"Operation Crossroads: 21 Kiloton "Baker" Bomb Detonated Ninety Feet Underwater, Bikini Atoll Lagoon, South Pacific, July 25, 1946]
This remarkable photograph of an underwater nuclear bomb test in the South Pacific was made just after the war’s end from a tower on Bikini Island. It shows a two-thousand-foot-wide detonation water column and above it a funnel-shaped "cauliflower head." In another instant more than two million gallons of water will begin to fall downward around decommissioned warships and create a "base surge" whose first wave will measure ninety-four feet high. The United States used a bomb of the same design and yield to destroy the Japanese city of Nagasaki less than a year earlier, on August 9, 1945." - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
We also have other Bikini Atoll photographs available.
Please note pinholes along edges.
