
Jacobsen’s book reads, “The Baker bomb at Operation Crossroads, July 25, 1946, was 21 kilotons, one and a half times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Baker’s underwater fireball produced a ‘chimney’ of radioactive water 6,000 feet tall and 2,000 feet wide.”
The author also notes that Stalin had spies at the event.
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