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AFTER THE PREDICTIONS, CONFIRMATION. 



Oblique view of the condensation cloud and water 

 mass rising up at the center. The Evaluation Board 

 commented on Test Baker as follows: "The explo- 

 sion was of predicted violence and is estimated to 

 have been at least as destructive as 20,000 tons 



of TNT. To a degree which the Board finds re- 

 markable, the visible phenomena of explosion fol- 

 lowed the predictions made by civilian and ser- 

 vice phenomenologists attached to Joint Task 

 Force One. The blast was followed by an opaque 

 cloud which enveloped half of the target array." 



