miles distant. Trees swayed and snapped violently as the wave thundered over the desolate islands--sand, rocks and dust would have literally "jumped" into the air. Following the shock wave came unearthly winds several hundred miles per hour near the center and 70 to 100 miles per hour several miles away which stirred the lagoon's waters into a froth and stinging spray like that during a full scale typhoon, blowing away sand and soil cover of the islands and flinging waves breaking on tne reef back into the sea. Some time after the fireball had risen, these winds ceased and "afterwinds" began flowing toward the forming mushroom cloud, following the path of the rising superheaded air, Within minutes these "afterwinds" would increase toa near gale velocity, some distance from the center, and the remaining trees on the islands would be bent toward the explosion. The lagoon once again was whipped into a frenzy by the freakish wind, At the same time awesome waves towering more than 100 feet high would have rolled out, which--even though diminished by distance--would be large enough to completely wash over whole islands on Bikini's rim. During its origins, "Bravo" would have also pulverized and lifted into the sky an immense portion of the Bikini reef, along with seawater vaporized by the blast. Since “Bravo'' was roughly three times more powerful than Mike, it undoubtedly lifted several hundred million tons of matter into the air immediately, or through the action of the "“afterwinds" which sucked matter up through the base of the column. During the period of the fireball's rise, the final 10 percent of the bomb's energy was expended in residual radiation which was deposited [O14b8I 75