what's going on you've got yourself a front seat to something you're not going to forget so quick feed that he'll feel see it light up like you never saw a light before any minute now going to test an atomic bomb  and i still can't believe it every time she smiles at me i think and it's just impossible the days after the doctor tell me the diagnosis i was certainly called back to say made a mistake that's right what can i do for you mr ashley i wonder if you'd be interested in telling your ranch fraid you came at the wrong time this place is giving a deal of pleasure to a little girl and there's mom and i wouldn't dream of giving it up there isn't a matter of giving immediate possession we have options on the land from here all the way down to the river but we would like to hold on your place in case of possible expansion later on an expansion for what's why i thought you know the whole town talking you know why i just got in an hour  ago i see well i work for the atomic energy commission they're going to build a plant here well since you've been away and this is all new to you not actually you need some time to think it over maybe you'll be better if i call back again a day or so for the answer would still be the same i'll call anyway you problems but there will be advantages for everyone i wish how much is your place worth right now about four thousand well in six months i'll be able to get you twelve or maybe fifteen if you want to sell i won't be gone the sale it's my home  born and raised it when the folks at it when they come out here in covered wagons and they looked all over before they picked this is the best spot well maybe it won't help you so much but things have been too good here for two or three years plenty of people in town i could use a stuff course i'm not saying that money means happiness it's a lot easier when you're not pension and campaign in worrying year after year so it's just a question of money but there's more to it than that but you've always got me elected mayor and i know what this town needs and i'm much at leeds the new school building for one thing and doctor of horrors of the nearest hospital twenty six miles and a decent water system wouldn't hurt much like we got along without him so far is that any reason why our children should have to live that's why i'm glad the plant is coming it will mean the best schools and hospitals and things like that sure i'll hate to see the old town change just like anybody else but i'm darn sure it'll be worth it seems to me  carefully controlled that's not the point i was a hiroshima doc maybe eight or nine days after the bomb was dropped i saw what was left of the to make the atomic bomb here  selling my place and leaving town i don't want to be part of it i can understand how it feels after that kind of an experience naturally to brady the whole idea of the bomb let us be honest we're all afraid we're all terrified and so are people all over the world but the fact of the matter is the bomb is here now that it's been advantaged we just can't stick our heads in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist and say what you like about it having the bomb is pretty good insurance against an attack by an aggressor gone you've been very quiet how do you feel about this well i was listening i don't hear the news about an hour ago and i don't like to make up my mind in a hurry have you made it up now yes i think i have i agree with a lot of your fellows have been talking about the bomb has been invented there's nothing we can do about that the point is that we want to hear kerry says the plan to bring money into the town and that's fine because we can all use a little more money i know i can borrow says it'll give us new schools hospitals and so on the where will all this come from from the atomic bomb and the atomic bomb no matter how thin your slice it is simply a machine like killing people yeah my folks came here about the same time yours did to him that's right maybe today it isn't as big a town as they dreamed it would be it probably isn't as all we did was grow up crops and raise like cattle but at least we never tried to make any money out about a people's own happiness now some of you are a war and that the town would change i'm worrying about the people who live in this town what sort of people way would be half way grow rich on the atomic bomb with the scores in the hospitals that we know one day i'll have to be paid for with other people's lives yeah that's the change i'm worrying about i don't think it's worth it i tell you anything you don't know already just following your protected course from the very much pain not yet not for some months but the end inevitable unless unless what i suppose they talk to you about the possibilities of an operation you said the chance of success would be one and the fact we thought it all the very cafe was a tough decision to make a gamble like that what right did we have to cut off what little chance she has left some day the chances will be better some day we'll have learned enough not to be too late for her things like this in the world and they have to invent the atomic bomb i suppose that's where sounded off so yesterday maybe i should know i'm glad you did i intended coming over here tonight even if you hadn't called me about vivian you got me thinking it's good for me you know up to now i kept thinking everything science did was good my training i suppose now i'm not so sure of that that was the thinking till you know john i think if you were to take a vote right now the time would be against having the plant come here and all your certain i talked to a lot of people today and what are we going to do about your body should you think a thing is wrong then you've got to do something about what can we do about it i don't know that's what we're going to find out business well that's not the point of this meeting the point is to keep the plant from coming here as a kind of a tough proposition is not you just can't argue with something like the atomic energy commission why not tomic energy commission is part of the government  government is elected to work for it seems to me it's our duty as citizens to speak out when they do something they disagree with you think that to get you anywhere