Crossroads soundtrack5/23/2023 ![]() "Conner found a cataclysmic beauty in the declassified National Archives footage of the first underwater atomic bomb test “Baker Day”, which was conducted on Bikini Atoll on July 25, 1946. Nearly half the world’s supply of film was at Bikini for the tests, making these explosions the most thoroughly photographed moment in history. More than seven hundred cameras, and approximately five hundred camera operators surrounded the test site. Both tests involved the detonation of a weapon with a yield equivalent to twenty-three million tons of TNT–the same as the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki. "Operation Crossroads" was the name of the first two of twenty-three nuclear weapons tests the United States conducted at Bikini Atoll between 19. Original music by Patrick Gleeson and Terry Riley
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