Pres. Dwight Eisenhower addresses the UN to ask world powers for peaceful use of atom
PAN delegates seated at meeting of the UN General Assembly / Intertitle "25 times the power of first atom bomb" superimposed over file footage of atomic bomb explosion / Intertitle "Hydrogen Bomb = to more than 5,000,000 tons of TNT" superimposed over file footage of Hydrogen bomb explosion / Intertitle "Today's stockpile - +Times all bombs and shells World War II" superimposed over CU gun being fired, rear view fire gun, CU soldiers gun, fire battery of guns, CU gun being fired aboard ship, plane drops bombs / CU SOT US Pres. Dwight Eisenhower addressing the UN: "But the dread secret and the fearful engines of the atomic might are not ours alone. In the first place, the secret is possessed by our friends and allies, Great Britain and Canada whose scientific genius made a tremendous contribution to our original discoveries and the designs of atomic bombs. The secret is also known by the Soviet Union" / WS cutaway audience / SOT Eisenhower: United States knows that peaceful power from atomic energy is no dream of the future. That capability, already proved, is here, now, today / VO Eisenhower over montage of file shots of atomic bomb explosion, scientists working, man being examined by medical equipment, scientist working in lab, test tubes being shaken, female scientist looking thru microscope in the lab, close up of liquid being put into tube, scientist working in lab, male scientist with microscope / SOT Eisenhower re "universal, efficient economic usage" of atomic power / CU SOT Eisenhower: "The United States pledges before you and therefore before the world its determination to help to solve the fearful atomic dilemma, to devote its entire heart and mind to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death but consecrated to his life" / WS Eisenhower bows to Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the president of UN General Assembly, and walks away from rostrum, VO applause
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Editorial #:
1335986886
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Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
December 08, 1953
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00:02:07:08
Location:
New York City, New York, United States
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QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
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35mm B/W Neg
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Sherman Grinberg Library
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sr004814_01_02
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