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OUT OF FISSION, CONFUSION. These photo- 

 graphs re-emphasize the great scale of the Baker 

 burst. They convey an impression that was the 

 commonly-shared experience of on-the-spot ob- 

 servers — the difficulty mentally of taking in the 

 spectacle before them. Note particularly, in the 

 picture opposite, the row of destroyers lying in a 

 sunny patch of sea not yet encompassed by the 

 advancing cloud of water and spray. They are like 

 minnows about to be engulfed by Niagara. Lost 

 in comparison with the towering clouds of spray 

 spreading out from the top of the cloud, some of 

 these ships are shortly to be immersed in the wall 

 of foam coming along the Lagoon's surface from 

 the base of the column. 



