The Atomic Bomb

Series

Series Name

War Pictorial News

Issue

Issue No.

228

Date Released

17 Sep 1945

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1[Not Stated]
2. 2Japs Surrender in Burma
3. 3The Atomic Bomb

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

Shots of the explosion - mushroom cloud. Aerial views of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The laboratories at Oak Ridge and the factory city which produced the bomb; the workers and their families. Ernst Laurens works on atom cyclotron. More shots of the explosion - taken six miles above. A steel tower evaporates as the atomic force hits it.

Keywords

Weapons; Industry and manufacture; Nuclear energy

Credits:

Commentator

Patrick O’Malley

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive

Email

film@iwm.org.uk

Web

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/film

Phone

020 7416 5291

Fax

020 7416 5379

Address

Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ

Notes

The IWM also preserves the original nitrate film copies for the World War II period of British Paramount News, Gaumont British News and Universal News.

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