He then read portions of the statement for a newsreel crew. The film was made in his stateroom in “flag country” on the Augusta. Wearing a light tan summer suit with red tie, the president sat at a desk facing the camera, a round porthole visible behind him. “It is an atomic bomb,” he said. “It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.” He explained that the United States, with assistance from Great Britain, had assembled the leading scientists and built the immense industrial
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