this is washington vice admiral william blaine and his wife rear admiral frankl lowry. celebrate the successful completion of operation crossroads. tests of the effect of atomic explosions on ships that were carried out on bikini atoll in july of the same year , the photo was published by the washington newspaper all souls unitarian post preacher arthur paul davies here's what he had to say about it in his sermon in front of me in the pulpit is a page from a newspaper. from a very good newspaper, it has a picture on it, it seems to me, a completely disgusting picture. i would even say obscene in the picture two senior officers of the fleet are depicted. and a very beautiful lady, they cut the atomic cake. this is a cake in the form of an atomic explosion. the caption says it's made from flaky angel food. what will the people of hiroshima and nagasaki think? the preacher continues that americans make cakes from puff angelic food in the image and likeness of a terrible devilish entity that suddenly killed thousands of their friends and brought a nasty slow death to a thou