Crapaganda.com » splitting the atom http://crapaganda.com What THEY don't want you to know Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:30:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 General Electric 1950s Atomic Energy Propaganda Campaign http://crapaganda.com/history/general-electric-1950s-atomic-energy-propaganda-campaig/ http://crapaganda.com/history/general-electric-1950s-atomic-energy-propaganda-campaig/#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:44:02 +0000 admin http://crapaganda.com/?p=1361 The worlds first real introduction to the atom was the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. What we witnessed was the raw destructive force of splitting the atom. In order to win us over to the peacetime uses of this technology the public needed to be educated.

A Is for Atom is a 14-minute animated propaganda film created by Sutherland Productions and paid for by General Electric.  The short explains what an atom is, how nuclear energy is released from certain kinds of atoms, the peacetime uses of nuclear power, and the by-products of nuclear fission.

Watch A Is for Atom

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