![MHS Collections Online: Second Bikini Atoll atomic bomb test [2 seconds after detonation], 25 July 1946 MHS Collections Online: Second Bikini Atoll atomic bomb test [2 seconds after detonation], 25 July 1946](https://www.masshist.org/database/images11/5622_bikini_2_sec_work_lg.jpg)
MHS Collections Online: Second Bikini Atoll atomic bomb test [2 seconds after detonation], 25 July 1946
U.S. Navy - Operation Crossroads, 1946. “Able-Day” detonation of an atomic bomb over the target fleet at Bikini Atoll, 1 July 1946. Note shock waves on the surface just outside the fireball.
U.S. Army Photographic Signal Corps | [Operation Crossroads: 21 Kiloton "Baker" Bomb Detonated Ninety Feet Underwater, Bikini Atoll Lagoon, South Pacific, July 25, 1946] | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
![Marshall Islands 'nuclear coffin' in danger of leaking nuclear bomb waste due to sea level rise - The Washington Post Marshall Islands 'nuclear coffin' in danger of leaking nuclear bomb waste due to sea level rise - The Washington Post](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/autMHvj3exA/maxresdefault.jpg)
Marshall Islands 'nuclear coffin' in danger of leaking nuclear bomb waste due to sea level rise - The Washington Post
![Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll] | Library of Congress Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll] | Library of Congress](http://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/ds/02900/02944v.jpg)
Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll] | Library of Congress
![Nuclear (fission) explosion and mushroom cloud at the Operation Crossroads (Baker Day) nuclear test at Bikini Atoll in 1946 Stock Photo - Alamy Nuclear (fission) explosion and mushroom cloud at the Operation Crossroads (Baker Day) nuclear test at Bikini Atoll in 1946 Stock Photo - Alamy](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2GC9T3D/nuclear-fission-explosion-and-mushroom-cloud-at-the-operation-crossroads-baker-day-nuclear-test-at-bikini-atoll-in-1946-2GC9T3D.jpg)