BOMBS AT BIKINI 



Light metal surfaces, such as exteriors of trucks 

 and aircraft structures, were frequently demolished. 



Bombs and torpedoes exploded in a number of in- 

 stances, but probably not as a direct result of the atomic 

 bomb explosion. Secondary causes, such as fires, were 

 presumably responsible. 



Army quartermaster stores and other miscellaneous 

 equipment exposed showed greater vulnerability, ordi- 

 narily, than normal naval deck gear. 



INJURY TO ANIMALS 



The test animals which had been placed on the 

 twenty-two target vessels by Captain Draeger's DSM 

 Naval Medical Research Section were removed as soon 

 as possible after the detonation. Some of the animals 

 were removed on the afternoon of A-Day ; others were 

 removed on the two following days. They were brought 

 to the BURLESON, where injured animals were given 

 good medical care and all animals were examined 

 thoroughly.* 



In all, about 35 percent of the animals used in Test 

 A had been killed as of late September, 1946. Ten per- 

 cent died from air blast, 15 percent from radioactivity, 

 and 10 percent were killed for study. 



* Goats are imperturhahle animals. A goat aboard the NI- 

 AGARA was photographed hy a close-up automatic motion picture 

 camera just as the shock wave struck. The pictures give a clear view 

 of the goat, and show him ^nunching his hay without interruption 

 as the shock wave struck and debris flew all about. 



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