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Atomic Power - Einstein Statement; Federation of Scientists; Acheson

Reel Number: 221092-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL and SD

Year / Date: 1946

Country: USA

Location: DC,New Jersey,Princeton,Washington

TC Begins: 16:35:46

TC Ends: 16:47:07

Duration: 00:11:21

Atomic Power - Einstein Statement; Federation of Scientists; Acheson INT Einstein residence at 112 Mercer Street, Princeton, New Jersey. Doctors Urey, Szilard & Einstein seated; Urey reads statement on their responsibility in harnessing the atom; Einstein agrees to the text. 16:39:56 Si. EXT run-down building w/ sign ‘Federation of American Scientists - National Committee on Atomic Information’. INT office - J.W. Bush, Jr & Albert Cahan of American Federation of Scientists w/ Mr. Higginbothom & Daniel Meltcher (Head of Office of Atomic Info). CU bulletin sheet w/ headed paper ‘National Committee on Atomic Information’. Young volunteers ? assembling Atomic Bulletin & Info Packets. CUs newsletters ‘One World or None’ - ‘Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - The American and Russian Proposals’ - someone underlines a sentence in pencil. 16:44:49 Name plaque on door - ‘Mr Acheson - Under Secretary of State’. INT Dean Acheson & David Lilienthal discussing document behind desk MOS CU ‘A Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy’. Post-WWII; Nuclear War / Weapons. Cold War. 1940s.

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