Operation Crossroads sees fourth atom bomb dropped (1946)

GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Footage flashes back to the atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki, animals are loaded onto the 73 doomed ships set to be bombed in the latest test, material samples and medical supplies are put aboard to record the effects on them, observers watch from miles away wearing protective goggles as the B-29 drops the bomb onto the test fleet, a mushroom cloud surges seven miles into the Pacific sky, and the salvage fleet proceeds to the Bikini Atoll lagoon to assess the damage Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Operation Crossroads: Zero Hour for Atomic “Rendezvous with Death“ PACIFIC OCEAN: Micronesia: Bikini Atoll: EXT AMERICAN NAVAL. Shots of 73 ships lying in Bikini lagoon ready for the atomic bomb explosion, shots of salvage ships moving after the explosion, shots of Damaged & sunk ships there, shots Adm Blandy on flag ship