Sez my friend (and onetime editor) Hugh Iglarsh: “This cake is in celebration of the Bikini Atoll Nuke Test of 1946, otherwise known as Operation Crossroads. Many decades (and 23 nuclear explosions) later, the Pacific Ocean islets remain highly contaminated and unfit for habitation.”
Admiral William H.P. Blandy and his wife cut an Operation Crossroads mushroom cloud cake, while Admiral Frank J. Lowry looks on.
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