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Mighty Sara goes down stem-first. Skate, damaged but operable, proceeds from Bikini.
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T' l l l B i i l l l 3 l i I k l i l A is Submarine Skate after tests. The animals fared far Worse than the target ships, for the deadly alpha, beta, and gamma rays continued to emanate from hulls and superstructure made radio- active by contact with fission products, Ten per cent of the animals used in Test Able died of air blast effects and ten per cent more were killed by radio- activity. In Test Baker it Was impossible to check ship's interiors for four days, but at that time six pis Were dead of radiation sickness, While the balance lasted OPPOSITE PAGE F our-hundred-foot wall of radioactive water inurzdates target ships. Drone camera records Baker Day blast from overhead.
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N i 1 il 1 . E -I if 1 iii Scrubbing down target ship to clear radioactive particles. about two more weeks. Only twenty-four rats were still alive by the middle of August, The tests will have many far-reaching effects on naval design and tactics. Heavy superstructural damage in the Able Day blast led many observers to favor the submarine as an answer to the Atomic Bomb, for little or no hull damage was inflicted on ships designed to withstand any abnormal pressures. Since water is only very slightly compressible it is doubtful if the aerial explosion would be felt at a normal cruising depth of 45-90 feet. However, an underwater explo- sion has quite another effect-diving operations in the murky lagoon have dis- closed evid.ence of the terrific force exerted on hulls in the danger area. The Arkansas' heavy belt line is ripped from stem to stern, the submarines Apogon, Skipjack, and Pifotfish lie at the bottom of the lagoon with several compart- ments punctured and flooded. If conclusive proof of the Atomic Bomb's power were needed, Operation Crossroads has certainly provided it. It has succeeded in destroying, damaging, or immobilizing more ships in a single blast than were lost in the classic Battle of Jutland, thirty years before. As a destructive force it exceeds any explosive known to man, its heat surpasses anything this side of the mother sun, and its
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