"March of Time" Collection, 1934 - 1951. "March of Time" Motion Picture Newsreel Releases, 1935 - 1953. ATOMIC POWER!

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"March of Time" Collection, 1934 - 1951. "March of Time" Motion Picture Newsreel Releases, 1935 - 1953. ATOMIC POWER!

1946

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On the development and control of atomic power in the U.S. Reel 1 shows ruins of Hiroshima. J.B. Conant, P.C. Keith, C.A. Thomas and J.A. Wheeler discuss problems of atomic control and peacetime uses. Einstein announces the theory of relativity in 1905. Enrico Fermi, H.C. Urey, and E.O. Lawrence work on nuclear fission projects in 1934. Lisa Meisner computes atomic force in 1939. Scientists meeting at George Washington Univ. (D.C.) in 1939 learn that German physicists have split the atom. M.A. Tuve effects a fission. G.B. Pegram, Fermi, and Einstein urge Pres. Roosevelt to request government control. Dr. L.J. Briggs heads F.D.R.'s advisory commission; Dr. Vannevar Bush is chosen head of the National Defense Research Committee. Reel 2, Gen. Groves heads the physical development program. Fermi, at the Univ. of Chicago, effects the first controlled chain reaction. Uranium-235 is processed at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Gen. Groves, Bush, Conant, and J. Robert Oppenheimer witness the atomic explosion at Alamogordo Air Force Base in 1945. Publications are distributed by the Federation of American Scientists and the National Committee on Atomic Information. The Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists solicits research funds. Sec. of State Acheson meets with Bush, Conant and D.E. Lilienthal. At a U.N. meeting at Lake Success, N.Y., Bernard Baruch and Gromyko differ on atomic disarmament.

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