U.S. Marine Corps honor guard at UN Security Council at Hunter College, New York City. Honor Guard parade at Bronx Campus of Hunter College. Exteriors of Hunter College. A man talks with honor guard on steps of building. International delegates arrive in car to attend UN Security Council sessions held at Bronx Campus, Hunter College. Honor guard salutes delegates. Delegates walk through the campus towards a building. Honor guard checks identity cards of delegates arriving. Honor guard directs a foreign delegate. Overhead sign reads 'Council Chamber C Salle Du Conseil'. Delegates seated in the chamber. Honor guard parade in review. Honor guard lined up.
American Architect Richard Buckminster Fuller shows a model of his Dymaxion house design, in Ritz-Carlton Hotel (42 E 46th St, New York, NY 10017, USA), New York. Mr. Fuller explains that the house is suspended from a single stainless-steel mast, and the whole weighs only four tons. The guests listen and look at the model. A woman looks at the model house. A man removes the roof of the model to expose the interior of the house.
Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein's home in Princeton, New Jersey. View of Albert Einstein's house. Doorway of the house. The interiors of the house showing Professor Einstein seated and smoking pipe.
Dr. Leo Szilard and Professor Albert Einstein seated on the back porch of Einstein's residence at 112 Mercer Street, Princeton, New Jersey. They are reenacting their 1939 discussions about Szilard's findings regarding an atomic bomb. Szilard shows Einstein a series of papers and explains his ideas. Einstein smokes his pipe and comments occasionally. (World War II period).
Carnegie institution of Washington D.C. and American Physics Institute in New York. Exteriors of Carnegie institution of Washington Headquarters. People arrive and leave the headquarters. Car arrives at the entrance of the building. Interiors of American Physics Institute at 57 East 55th Street. Reenactment shows Dr. Vannevar Bush working at his desk. He signs a few documents.
Reenactment shows a meeting of Head of American Physics Department George Pegram and Dr. Vannevar Bush in the United States concerning atomic bomb during World War II. Dr. Pegram and Dr. Bush talks at dinner. Pregram, just returned from Britain, reports to Bush that the Germans are working on an atomic bomb. He says that the British scientists are of the opinion that a uranium bomb is practicable but big industrial output necessary makes it imperative. Therefore work must be done in America. Bush says he is to see the President the next day, and he is confident they will get all the help they need.
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