Operation Crossroads conducts Baker atomic bomb test (1946)

GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Baker atomic bomb, the fifth launched, is detonated at Bikini Atoll to measure damage to naval craft Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Operation Crossroads. Underwater atomic blast again rocks Bikini Atoll. MARSHALL ISLANDS: Bikini Atoll: EXT ATOM Shots of Underwater Atomic Bomb from different angles ATOMIC BOMB. OPERATION CROSS-ROAD. UNDERWATER ATOMIC BLAST AGAINST ROCKS BIKINI ATOLL. Shots of some of the 83 ships in Bikini Lagoon, air shots, shots of cameras on island ready to record blast, shots of bomb raft, shots of sailors abandoning ships, shots Adm Parsons going aboard flagship to report to Adm Blandy-shots of. shots of scientific team go aboard firing ship, shots of them at work, shots of cameras on boats ready, shots of explosion, shots of clouds turning into mushroom shape, shots of explosion from different an