BIKINI BOMB
SHIPS’ EXTERIORS STILL LETHAL (Rec. 2 p.m.) BIKINI, August 5. Admiral Blandy eyeing the targetships still deadly with radio-activity 11 days after the atom bomb explosion, declared: “This is a form of poison warfare.” He added that the atom bomb as used for blasting Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not a poison attack. Some deaths occurred from direct radiation at the instant of the explosion, but residual activity was not in evidence. This was in sharp contrast to Bikini’s underwater blast, where all the ships’ exteriors were made lethal by contaminated seawater, and by artificial rain precipitating death-dealing fission products from the sky. The large concrete floating drydock unexpectedly capsized and sank as a result of damage by the atom bombs.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 August 1946, Page 6
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