The quick and the dead.

The NBC News and Special Events Department

present the spectacular document for ear

on the atomic bomb under the direction of Fred Friendley.

This is Bob Hope.

You see this piece of white shiny metal

about the size and say a package of cigarettes?

You see this piece in my hand about the same size?

Together they weigh over a few pounds.

Both are hunks of uranium.

Now I take one and gently I tap it against the other.

Now hold on to your seats.

That's an atomic explosion.

Just like the one that blew up Hiroshima.

Two pieces of ore and you bang them together

and you can destroy a city.

Why?

What is man done to these two pieces of metal?

Now you're probably leaning back and saying to yourself,

what on earth is Hope doing talking about atomic energy?

What does he know about physics and you'd be right?

I didn't even know what Fission meant.

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