CHINA'S PREMIER, T.V. SOONG, VISITS UNITED STATES [ETC.]

Year Published: 1944

Format: 16mm/video file

Description: National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39076, LI 208-UN-169 - CHINA'S PREMIER, T.V. SOONG, VISITS UNITED STATES [ETC.] - Series: Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels, compiled 1942 - 1945. Part 1, Premier Soong arrives at the Washington, D.C., airport. Part 2 explains the operation and uses of radar. Shows radar tracing an enemy plane, the information being transmitted to search-light and antiaircraft batteries, and the plane being shot down. Shows how radar assists in airplane landings. Part 3 shows Prof. Ernest O. Laurence experimenting with a cyclotron at the University of California. Diagrams the release of atomic energy. Shows the atomic energy plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the atomic explosions at Los Alamos, New Mexico. President Truman speaks on atom bomb security.

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