E = mc2: A Living Newspaper About the Atomic Age

by Hallie Flanagan Davis, Sylvia Gassel, Day Tuttle

With the use of dramatic scenes, realistic and symbolic, music, dance, and movies, the piece swiftly explains the nature of Atomic power, its history, the present controversy waged over it and the present impasse. The Second Act demonstrates the potential progress that the discovery of Atomic power can bring to the world. It dramatizes the suggestions of some of the best minds of the age as to how it can be best controlled. Finally, it demonstrates dramatically what may likely come to pass if the destructive potential of Atomic power is loosed upon the world. It closes with the inevitable message that it is up to each every one in the world to face and accept the responsibility that the discovery of Atomic power has thrust upon each and every one of us.

A play in two acts

88 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1947

Reviews

[Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

Surprising in the very best way from the opening images. Impeccably researched throughout, Flanagan Davis gives us a chilling satirical ending that is so unexpected.