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Ruins of Urakami Roman Catholic church, Nagasaki, Japan, mid-1946	USS Independence anchored in Bikini Atoll as a target ship for the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests, Jul 1946.

Independence showing atomic bomb damage off Bikini Islands, 1 Jul 1946, photo 1 of 2	Independence showing atomic bomb damage off Bikini Islands, 1 Jul 1946, photo 2 of 2

Decommissioning ceremony of USS Puffer, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 12 Jul 1946	President Harry Truman with Vice-Admiral Marc Mitscher, White House, Washington DC, United States, 16 Jul 1946

Aerial view of central Hiroshima, Japan a year after the bomb went off, 20 Jul 1946	P-80A Shooting Star aircraft, Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffet Field, California, United States, 22 July 1946

USS Sea Cat off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 22 Jul 1946	USS Sea Cat at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 23 Jul 1946

Operation Crossroads Test Baker, an underwater plutonium bomb test, at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, 25 Jul 1946. Note cruiser USS Salt Lake City and Japanese battleship Nagato among the test fleet.	Saratoga sinking after atomic bomb blast, Bikini Atoll, Marshall islands, 25 Jul 1946, photo 1 of 2

Saratoga sinking after atomic bomb blast, Bikini Atoll, Marshall islands, 25 Jul 1946, photo 2 of 2	Commander Samuel Bussey at the commissioning ceremony of USS Barbero, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 26 Jul 1948

Émile Bertin at Toulon, France, 29 Jul 1946	Amagi capsized at Kure, Japan, Aug 1946

Burned vegetation, Nagasaki, Japan, mid-1946	Destroyed bridge, Nagasaki, Japan, mid-1946

Destroyed bridge, Nagasaki, Japan, mid-1946	Destroyed building, Nagasaki, Japan, mid-1946