After dropping the atomic bomb
but the twenty nine days dream returns to his basic watch a lean
not far behind the Air Force photographic planes without film record one of the
most amazing
and spectacular events in the annals of history cameras are removed from the planes
and the exposed film bar where did the photographic centers for processing
and distribution.
Be seventeen Air Force drones landed and we docked.
These planes guided to the center of the cloud condom.
Gathered radioactive dust particles in large filter bags suspended from bomb
Reich's the deadly radioactive dust bags are removed and carried to laboratories
but testing
and analyzing the Navy
and six F. Drones flown back from bikini by Mother control lines for their land
and rowing island
when the drones near the ground
and air controllers switched to the ground control officer at the edge of the
flight strip lands the pilot less aircraft
like the Air Force drones the Navy fighters carried air scoop containing special
builder Weber's body turning the concentration of radioactivity in the cloud.
Com.
Crews removing the dangerously radioactive materials by carefully indoctrinated in
the procedure of handling such objects in order to avoid lethal burns from the
fission products deadly gamma
and beta rays.
While at Bikini inspection Friday make a preliminary appraisal of the damage to the
target fleet burning from fires started by the low order detonation
and got to work
and is the aircraft carrier independent the light carrier was heavily damaged the
blast struck the ship on the port quarter.
What carried away my plating and pushed up the flight deck so
that it looked like a rooftop the independence class carriers are built on lightly
constructed cruiser type like accounts in pride
but I haven't done the
aircraft carrier Saratoga was undamaged except for a small fire in surprised
or a
battleship Nevada Target Chip
or the array Socred moderate superstructure damage on the deck at. It was buckled.
But paint on one side was scorched
but did not burn
that area between the test table
and test maker experiments was an extremely busy one.
Your name's times good making detailed
and comprehensive inspections recording data and rewriting the entire time
that we put the underwater test was completed during this time by said no bland
able to run direct to speaking to the.
Bikini during the friendly visit the admiral presented King today with several
guests at sea aboard the aircraft carrier state
or a naval boat a graphic artist brief the photographic plane pilots
and lens experts will photograph the baker day blacks.
Also taking off from the carrier controlled planes
that will guide the radio controlled boat
in bikini lagoon radiological reconnaissance boats directed from low flying
aircraft will be used as safety patrol vessels immediately after the blast these
drone boats equipped with special instruments to record radio activity will be
guided to the target area that captures circles of water
and they're determining the concentration of deadly radioactive particles is of the
utmost importance. Since invisible gamma and beta rays kill without warning.
Aboard the firing here at us as Cumberland sound the Los Alamos group of the
Manhattan engineer district enter the timing laboratory where the radio
transmitters
and specially constructed instruments for detonating the bomb are located.
The timing laboratory scientists pass into the master control room.
Dr Marshall Holloway leader of the Los Alamos built on NOTS in personally throws
one of the master transmitters which is.
The timing laboratory is a complex interlocking system of radio transmitters timing
recorders and scientific apparatus.
As eight hour approaches generators are started translators warmed up read cards on
time recorders changed
and everything made ready for the last.
Eight hours. Minus two minutes is broadcast from the hip
and all hands stand by sitting at the central console switchboard with a microphone
is Dr unattended an assistant to Dr Holloway.
As he announces a tower minus thirty seconds.
Dr Holloway throws the thirty seconds
when.
The get in at the automatic firing panel board prepares to broadcast the last bit
beam seconds.
Five or three.
To one find
these pictures of the descending water economy show the expanding crowd of spray
and fog at the base of the column moving outward uncovering the ships in the target
or a great quantities of radioactive water from the condom descended upon the decks
of the nearby that's rose
and hippos a mile away were granted by the wall of foaming water this world of
people spray and fog eventually covered the entire target fleet.
The next scene is a spectacular aerial view taken from directly over the blast.
Here is one of the drone airplanes flying over the target fleet after the last.
Photographic planes returned from bikini
and land on their voting bases it's the cameras
are removed
and the exposed film forwarded to the Naval photographic Center in Washington D.C.
For processing despite the
presence of radioactivity safety patrols immediately enter the lagoon for a
preliminary appraisal of the damage in an effort to reduce dangerous contamination
ships were sprayed with water and special kind of goes so
that inspection process could board them.
That is Troy
and you lose all ruptured by the last action was based on a new island in sinking
condition.
No blandly general Kepner and Admiral Parsons survey the damage in the target
or a goal here is the Japanese battleship in a Gato which flooded in capsized
five days after the plant
seven
and a half hours after the explosion the aircraft carrier Saratoga a grand old fighting
lady signed as a result of having underwater hold and.
It must be remembered
that the primary purpose of the bikini experiments was to secure precise technical
information which will be used to determine necessary changes in the design
and construction of military equipment and especially maybe
that old required to maintain your navy at maximum effectiveness.
We must be fully prepared to protect our national security promptly
and affectively in the other and that we are attacked.
We must defend ourselves against this new and elemental boy
or be destroyed by this
is crossroads.