Just a billiard-ball size sphere of Plutonium in an implosion device suspended 90 feet below the waters of Bikini Lagoon caused this 23,000 tons of TNT equivalent of energy to create the massive water column that has sucked the battleship Arkansas into the column like a twig and swamped and sank dozens of other warships. July, 1946.
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