series of educational records of our time the public service by the detroit news the home newspaper nevada new series of atomic explosions are set off tanks are among the obsolete pieces of army equipment being tested in the exercises called operation teapot more than nine thousand servicemen have been to some of the proving grounds ready to take their place in forward trenches in a grim new age of warfare today's fighting men must be taught survival on an atomic while the troops take cover the army's giant new one hundred inch camera is pointed toward the blast our men tensely are the control boat but the seconds tick off powered submarine surrounded by scaffolding the vessel has been under construction for more than a year now workmen put the finishing touches on the whole of the submarine slated to hit the water this year an undersea giant built to circle  sides down the way built at a cost of fifty million dollars if you will be able to circle the globe in twenty nine days without resurfacing on a few nuggets of uranium or torpedoes can be mounted with atomic warheads and she can operate at depths which would crush the conventional submarine three hundred foot three thousand ton nautilus will also have a speed of better than twenty knots underwater the age of atomic navies is born with power on which britain will explode her second atom bomb rises dark above the australian desert cameramen at the testing site wa airports never planes all the assignment of invading the atomic cloud to gather specimens of radioactive particles for analysis by nuclear scientists never carried filter traps mounted on the wings and fuselage during their cloud sampling mission their crews do a job considered impossible a few years ago today advanced techniques permits the men to stay inside the radioactive cloud for a time without harm supervising engineer defense officials testing bomb shelters they could help save lives a second home stands a mile away america is sinking through these drills to strengthen the home front defenses for their strength means our safety the closest house is leveled by the blast a quote of fifteen thousand tons of t n t but small as a bombs go the second building seventy five hundred feet from the explosion still stand all  prepare for this could be your house and your window again the atomic blast burning five hundred feet away a split second later past one of the cars exposed to the atomic during a civil defense official finally is able to reach the rubble of the two story house we just saw topple almost unbelievably mannequins in the basement bomb shelter are found t second all seems to suffer and comparatively minor damage windows have been blown in all americans must work together for the stronger our home front defenses the less the chance an atomic attack two is atomic energy honest by american scientific genius to benefit all mankind through dramatic new discoveries in industry and agriculture biology and medicine ten thousand scientists and engineers are at work to prove that atomic energy does not mean only the atomic bomb the master slave manipulator at the are gone national laboratory for example makes possible important industrial research behind glass and concrete walls three feet thick the operator is protected as he removes from its lead shielded cast a container with a dangerously radioactive metal inside the manipulator imitates the human hands and now the scientist watches the end of the container drop off next the slave hands remove the tube and carefully shake out the radioactive metal for testing the manipulator grasps  material then directed by the scientist places it under a hardness dial records the intensity of pressure a microscope attachment enables study for industrial purposes the effects of radioactivity on the hardness of metal  security safeguards america's atomic secrets every person working on a nuclear research project is intensively screened by the atomic energy commission protective force and in the rugged areas where even the vers cannot travel mounted patrols ring atomic energy at los alamos amidst the wild picturesque mountains of new mexico horses are of great value hanford biologists study the effects of radioactivity on fish since columbia river water is pumped through the plant to safeguard washington's perishing fish industry twenty five thousand crowd and salmon are hatched each year and exposed to water contaminated with radioactivity this is only one example of precautions that go on endlessly in this case there is not enough radioactivity to harm the fish or persons eating them hanford biologists are conducting similar experiments on sheep leading them pellets with radioactive ingredients the pairs of these substances are traced through the sheep's body these experiments could be of tremendous importance to biologist increasing their understanding of the processes of human life in the field of agriculture and isotopes such house has been built at the argon laboratory radioactive forms of plants are grown and examined under controlled safety conditions here a study is made of radioactive drugs which have been taken from these drugs which must be handled with gloves under a protective hood undergoes special analysis to determine how they can be most effectively employed by doctors in medical research closest yet in any test nearly six thousand persons participated including troops sheltered by trenches many cameras in many locations film the single bla vital information on how to survive an enemy attack when geiger counters to check the radiation next bergs s s the damage and aluminum building was left a gaping wrecked concrete or cinder block houses weathered the blast best this one was less than a mile away survival town's electric wires have become a twisted tangled mass demonstrating the importance of civil defense preparedness the elaborate exercises prove survival is possible offering new hope to all who live in the shadow of the atomic