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Aerial View of the Baker Day Explosion - Bureau of Indian Affairs

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Original caption: No Toy Balloon - At the instant the aerial camera recorded this photograph of the Baker Day explosion, water, steam, and radio active substances released in the blast were boiling skyward like a huge toy balloon.

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An atomic bomb and nuclear facilities images from the late 1940s and later.

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aerial aerial view baker explosion nuclear bomb test bikini lagoons bikini atoll atomic bomb housing federal bureau of indian affairs department of interior high resolution baker day explosion toy balloon historic photographs native americans ultra high resolution enchanted landscapes us national archives
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1922 - 1957
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in collections

When Fear Was Young

Atomic bomb.
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The U.S. National Archives
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aerial aerial view baker explosion nuclear bomb test bikini lagoons bikini atoll atomic bomb housing federal bureau of indian affairs department of interior high resolution baker day explosion toy balloon historic photographs native americans ultra high resolution enchanted landscapes us national archives