1. Vice Admiral W.H.P. Blandy, the commander of the first atomic bomb tests at the Bikini Atoll, cutting a 45 pound, atomic-bomb cake at a celebration marking the completion of the first tests in With him is his wife, as well as Rear Admiral F.J. Lowry. Though the cake-cutting evidences upbeat confidence, and even a certain glee, about the bomb, there were dissenting voices even at the time. Responding to news reports of this cake, the Reverend A. Powell Davies of All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington, D.C. commented: “How would it seem in Hiroshima or Nagasaki to know that Americans make cakes of angel food puffs in the image of that terrible, diabolical thing that brought sudden death?” Reverend Davies ( ) was an outspoken supporter of civil rights for African-Americans, as well as a critic of nuclear weapons.