A TREE GROWS IN BIKINI. Somewhere beneath 

 this, free-shaped watery pile lies the battleship 

 "Arkansas," which was the nearest to the center 

 of impact when the Baker bomb was detonated. 

 "Arkansas" and three other smaller ships sank 

 almost at once. The aircraft carrier "Saratoga," 

 also close to the bomb, sank seven and one-half 

 hours later. The big battleship "Nagato" emerged 

 from the Baker Test with a five degree list, re- 

 mained in that condition for four days, sank in the 

 middle of the night. Comparing the two tests, the 



Evaluation Board observed that ships remaining 

 afloat within the damage area appeared to have 

 been much more seriously damaged by the aerial 

 explosion than by the underwater explosion. 

 Damage to ships in the first test might have been 

 far greater had the bomb exploded directly over 

 the target ship "Nevada." No ship within a mile 

 of either burst could have escaped without some 

 damage to itself and serious injury to a large num- 

 ber of its crew. OPPOSITE. Vertical view of Baker 

 burst. 



