The Winter War in Finland against the Red Army of the Soviet Union. Damage from Russian air raids on a Finnish town. Structures covered in thick ice and snow. Soldiers push a car stuck in ice. Finnish ski troops in heavy white parkas, moving in the snow. A horse pulls a sled carrying a wounded Finnish soldier. Medics lift him on a stretcher and take him for treatment. A soldier, with cleats on his boots, climbs up a pole. Bullets in a Russian helmet. Snow-covered tanks and equipment. A captured T-28 tank and a BA-27 armored car (likely reused later by the Finns). Dead Russian soldiers lying in the snow.
United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy delivers a speech in Washington DC.on the subject of Nuclear Deterrence. President Kennedy seated on a podium and delivers his speech. He speaks into the microphone. A flag of United States on the stage. He talks about the nuclear weapons. Kennedy emphasizes on maintaining the quality and quantity of nuclear weapons so that America can survive nuclear attacks and have a credible deterrent.. He notes that there had been an agreed upon moratorium on Nuclear weapons testing. But, that the Soviet Union, abandoned that moratorium on September 1st, last year, when it commenced a series of nuclear weapons tests, many in the atmosphere. Accordingly, the President announced that he had first ordered the resumption of U.S. nuclear testing, limited to underground tests. Today, however, he was authorizing the Atomic Energy Commission and Department of Defense to resume U.S. nuclear weapons testing as they deemed necessary under present circumstances, with due regard to issues of radioactive fallout and impacts on other nations..
United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy delivers a speech in Washington DC. President Kennedy seated on a podium and delivers his speech. He speaks into the microphone. A flag of United States on the stage. He notes that nuclear disarmament will lead to security. He says U.S. will test these nuclear weapons not for political or psychological reason but for security reason. Kennedy also talks about the negotiation with Soviet Union.
United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy delivers a speech in Washington DC. President Kennedy seated on a podium as he delivers his speech. He speaks into the microphone. A flag of United States on the stage. He talks about the New 18-Power Conference on nuclear disarmament, scheduled for the14th of March, where the U.S. will present a statement of agreed principles that has been worked out with Soviet Union and endorsed by United Nations.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy speaks on disarmament and testing of nuclear weapons in Washington D.C. A flag of United States on the stage. He speaks that nuclear disarmament will lead to security. He clarifies that U.S. will perform tests on these nuclear weapons not for political or psychological reason but for security reason. He also talks about the negotiation with Soviet Union. “I have no doubt that most of our friends around the world have shared my own hope that we would never find it necessary to test again--and my own belief that, in the long run, the only real security in this age of nuclear peril rests not in armament but in disarmament. But I am equally certain that they would insist on our testing once that is deemed necessary to protect free world security. They know we are not deciding to test for political or psychological reasons--and they also know that we cannot avoid such tests for political or psychological reasons.” President Kennedy said.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy speaks on disarmament and testing of nuclear weapons in Washington D.C. A flag of United States on the stage. He talks about the New 18-Power Conference on 14th of march , in Geneva, where the U.S. will present a statement of agreed principles that has been worked out with Soviet Union and endorsed by United Nations.
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