One of these days you sitting there beside the radio and I talking here into this microphone must make a decision.

It must be the right decision.

If we fail, we may never have a chance to make another, for civilization

as we know it may disappear from the face of the earth. What you are about to hear is not designed to scare you, but it might, because it's true. The fifth horseman.

horseman.

Four horseman rode across the land and their names were war pestilons, salmon, death.

And to these now is added a fifth horseman, the threat of the atom.

The threat of the atom.

The national broadcasting company and its affiliated independent stations present the fifth horseman written and produced by Arnold Markus.

Here is the plain truth about the awesome significance of atomic energy and the hour of decision which faces mankind.

Starring Henry Fonda, this is the first in the series titled Rehearsal. And then. The Some people know firsthand what happens when an atomic bomb explodes, but not many.

No one was actually close enough to see with his own eyes what happened when that bomb was exploded over the ships here at Vikini a couple days ago. Pictures were

taken by drone planes and from a distance of miles from towers on shore and ships.

You've seen some of these pictures. You've heard the radio reports, read the newspapers.

But the thing is, you can't be a close eyewitness to the explosion of an atomic bomb and live.

We were on a ship 18 miles away from bikini when the bomb went off.

We've seen through our dark glasses the great blinding life and the majestic cloud rising to the sky

Right now they're tallying the damage done assessing the damage to the ships to the animals

Naturally there are a lot of opinions.

Most of the big battle wagons are still afloat aren't they?

And many of the animals are still alive.

This was one of the reporters on our ship.

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