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On this day in 1946, the USS Arkansas, an aging, 26,000-ton Wyoming class battleship, sank at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands during the Baker test, the second of a pair of nuclear weapon tests as part of Operation Crossroads. #ARhistory (1/9)
The Arkansas had been the closest of the ships anchored near the testing site. When the nuclear weapon detonated, the resulting underwater shock wave crushed the ship's starboard hull and rolled her onto her port side.
The ship now rests 170 feet underwater.
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The ship now rests 170 feet underwater.
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The nuclear weapon that sank the Arkansas was one of 23 nuclear devices detonated between 1946 and 1958 at seven test sites near Bikini Atoll. Operation Crossroads, of which the Baker test was a part, marked the start of that testing in 1946. #ARhistory (3/9)
