PRESIDENT HARRY S TRUMAN TALKS ON ATOMIC BOMBS

Description

Summary: MSs, MCUs, President Truman seated at desk in cabin of ship reads prepared speech on the atomic bomb. The President states in part, "A short time ago an American airplane dropped on bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bombs has more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. They have been repaid many fold, and the end is not yet!...We are now prepared to destroy more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have in any city...We shall destroy their docks, their factories, and their communications. Let there be no mistake, we shall completely destroy Japans power to make war..."We have spent more than two billion dollars on the greatest scientific gamble in history and we have won...What has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history".

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities