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Operation_Crossroads_Baker Crossroads Able, a 23-kiloton air-deployed nuclear weapon detonated on July 1, 1946. This bomb used, and consumed, the infamous Demon core that took the lives of two scientists in two separate criticality accidents.
3 posted on 07/26/2012 8:48:57 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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Crossroads Able mushroom cloud.


5 posted on 07/26/2012 9:00:34 PM PDT by moonshot925
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Photo caption: At This Point, Our Picnic Ended


19 posted on 07/26/2012 11:23:22 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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That looks a little bigger than 23 kilotons


28 posted on 07/27/2012 4:43:25 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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