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March 20, 2013 11:21 am PDT
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Amazing photos of 1946 nuclear weapons test
Baker was a 23-kiloton nuclear weapon that was detonated underwater at Bikini Atoll in 1946. The goal was to see what would happen to Navy boats if they were in the region where a nuclear bomb went off. The boats you see in this photo were unmanned, but there were sailors relatively close by, taking [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/TNdEIC72lBE/amazing-photos-of-1946-nuclear.html
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