National Broadcasting Company, Inc., Collection. 1953 - 1962. Motion Picture Films. 1953 - 1962. THREE, TWO, ONE, ZERO

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National Broadcasting Company, Inc., Collection. 1953 - 1962. Motion Picture Films. 1953 - 1962. THREE, TWO, ONE, ZERO

1954

On the use of atomic power. Pres. Truman, accompanied by Sec. Hull, enters Antwerp harbor aboard the cruiser Augusta, and poses with Churchill and Stalin at the Potsdam Conf. Shows Berlin in 1945, the first atomic explosion in Alamogordo, N.M., and atomic scientists Vannevar Bush, James Conant, and Robert Oppenheimer. Adm. Nimitz confers with aides, bombs are stacked, and B-29 planes bomb Japan. Shows the B-29 plane "Enola Gay," Hiroshima before and after being A-bombed, Nagasaki after the A-bomb attack, famous chemists of bygone years, Adolf Hitler, Ger. book-burning rallies, and fleeing Jews. Alfred Einstein poses circa 1939. Enrico Fermi works on the A-bomb at the Univ. of Chicago. Shows Gen. Groves, "Manhattan Project" director, and atomic research centers at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and other places. China's Mao Tse-tung detrains in Moscow and meets V. Molotov and Russ. Pres. Vorishilov. Communists riot in European cities. Winston Churchill delivers his "iron curtain" speech. Russ. delegate Gromyko walks out of the UN; U.S. delegate Austin proposes int'l control of atomic energy. U.S. planes land in Berlin during the Russ. blockade of the city. Shows Korean refugees and war scenes. Employees are inspected as they enter an atomic plant. Shows views of Moscow and Moscow Univ. Dr. Bush and Pres. Truman announce that Russia has exploded an A-bomb. The first H-bomb is tested on Eniwetok. Shows Russian factories and jet planes, U.S. planes at a, SAC base, and U.S. air raid shelters. A teacher leads an air raid drill in a U.S. school. Shows the injured and scarred victims of Hiroshima. Scientists study at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Shows a hospital's radioactive cobalt machine an atomic power plant in Idaho, and churches. Pres. Eisenhower discusses the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Shows Eleanor Roosevelt.

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