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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220585-10
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1949
Country: USA
Location:
TC Begins: 12:01:34
TC Ends: 12:08:11
Duration: 00:06:37
1949 - Atomic Age, Senator McMahon Announces USSR Atomic Bomb Test McMahon outdoors at microphones waits. “The President (Truman) has announced the dropping of an atomic explosive in Russia. This comes as no surprise to those who have been involved in our own...over 3 years ago we offered the whole world...unfortunately the Russians...there is yet time if we use the kind of ingenuity that the problem demands...masters of the Kremlin.” 12:03:45 President Truman has announced the perfection of an Atomic Explosion by... 3rd take interrupted by cloud. 12:07:13 McMahon says Stalin should be able to talk to our people as Pres. Truman should be able to talk to the Soviets. 12:07:53 Walks out of brush to microphones. Cold War; NOTE: Bomb was tested on 29Aug49 at Semipalatinsk. Truman announced it on 23Sep49.