1946 atomic bomb cake controversy - photos

[Jon]

Vice Admiral William H.P. Blandy, his wife, and Rear Admiral Frank J. Lowry cutting a mushroom cloud shaped cake to celebrate the disbanding of Joint Army-Navy Task Force Number One, which organized the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon tests in Bikini Atoll in 1946.

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The photograph caused an uproar, and was somewhat of an early harbinger of an era of military political correctness. Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal described it as a "sign of the times" in the letter below:

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More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads

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