Operations Crossroads, Atom Bomb Test, Bikini Atoll, 1946 #7171

About this film

Silent footage aboard a Navy ship. Sailor writes "Kilroy Was Here" on bulkhead. Sailors feed lab animals. Sailors crouch on deck of ship to protect themselves from blast. Footage of sailors looking at mushroom cloud from deck of ship. Radio announcers (?) describe scene into microphone. National Archives Identifier: 20943 no description.

Directors & creators

United States. Army

Subjects

Cold War, Operation Crossroads, Marshall Islands, 1946, Atomic Bomb, Mushroom Cloud, Nuclear weapons -- Marshall Islands -- Bikini Atoll -- Testing, Nuclear Weapons, Atomic bomb -- Marshall Islands -- Bikini Atoll -- Testing, Veterans -- United States, Veterans -- Diseases -- United States, Nuclear weapons testing victims -- United States, Nuclear Test, Bikini Atoll, Project Crossroads, A-bomb, Clouds -- Dynamics, Kilroy Was Here, Water vapor, Atmospheric

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