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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220645-07
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1945
Country: Germany,Germany USA Russia
Location: Potsdam,TN, Oak Ridge,WA, Hanford
TC Begins: 08:01:13
TC Ends: 08:06:09
Duration: 00:04:56
Atom Bomb and Reds Doom Japs Potsdam conference. Official portrait. Bombers, aircraft carriers, fighter bombers & Japan harbor. Diagram with atomic bomb compared to huge bombs, diagrams of explosions, Dr. Ernest Lawrence & cyclotron, Gen. Groves, Vannevar Bush, Dr. Richard Tolman. Mining uranium ore. Bags moved while soldiers guard. Richland Washington plant & workers coming off bus & into plant. Col Mathias head of Hanford. Oak Ridge workers look at newspaper headline. Prefabricated homes & trailers with women hanging wash. Shopping mall of merchants. May Day Parade in Moscow. Truman speaks: 'We are now prepared to destroy more rapidly and completely...their docks, their factories, their communications... it was to spare the Japanese people from utter destruction... behind this air attack...