i don't know but i'm still going to maybe it will if that we're not telling them how to run their business we're not saying don't make any more bombs always saying is don't bring your plant here there must be hundreds of places where they could build if they know that this whole town was against it you think that insist on putting it here is chairman i'd like to move a resolution i want to be the one to move it because at first i was all for the plan and what i've heard is made me change my mind i move that it is the anonymous wish of this council at the atomic energy commission abandon all plans for building a plant in this township and we call on our representative in congress to use every endeavor to see that this is done yeah you i might listen to me on nuclear physics but this is an administrative matter that's not the way i want you to help i'm not going to take this up with the ac just yet even if your constituents tell you to i don't think  congressman's job is to do just what he's told his job to do what he thinks is right i don't think this is right and if my friends back home had known the whole picture i don't believe that have drawn up this resolution that's right need your help how i'm flying down there tonight on the nine o'clock plane can you come with me where you know i can't i've got classes all day tomorrow i'll be on that plane because you believe in this is much as i do you talk with any of the other fellows gunderson you know i can do you first because i gather you had most to deliver resolution you also told me that you were very stubborn man which only means i suppose that when you finally made up your mind to stick to it naturally but you'll agree that the make is not about what it is it's mostly what you read about it branches that mostly what it's been used for so far at the tragedy of nuclear energy that had to begin a hiroshima i forest fire that might burn him to death it's fire from volcanoes he was afraid of it naturally he never thought that fire become man servant instead of its master and you think atomic energy will be oh yeah it's in spite of hiroshima if we control it rightly as fire had to be controlled rightly to be one of the greatest blessings we've ever received it's i'm not asking you to take his word for it as you obviously have no intention of doing now and whatsoever neither did i first the is convince me by showing me a little film i made in washington now before i act on your resolution i'd like him to have a chance doing the same for you fellows here that there it's that's fair enough congressman so far in that film you've seen demonstrations of atomic energy at work is a force for good in industry and agriculture and i would go on to a more dramatic use of this god given force this girl is suffering from one of mankind's most grad diseases cancer that's just cancer of the thyroid gland a few years ago this would have meant her case was hopeless now she has a chance that glass looks like it has plain water in it but actually it contains all hope in the form of a radioactive iodine solution and most people know that iodine is used in treating thyroid but let's explain where this radioactive business comes in it will see the young lady on the examination table suppose instead of the radioactive solution she swallowed a tiny wristwatch then if you could listen closely enough you could hear a ticking in a cold in the same way a little bit of atomic energy in the solution she drank is now sending out signals from the throat the signals are being picked up by the apparatus suspended over a neck and so provide a new and for men to sleep valuable guide to the doctor and his efforts to help the girl not take a look at this instrument doesn't seem very interesting but believe it or not you're seeing a bunch of atoms drawing their own picture every take of a radioactive atom causes a pain in the instrument to jiggle as it passes over the chart let's see it in action this gentleman may have cancer is a sire i'd buy and drinking the same kind of iodine solution the young lady drank and just as a didn't her case the i don't concentrate on the cancer tissue then the atoms go to work and draw their own picture and so the doctor has a record of the exact location of the cancer which you could obtain and no other way it's another use of atomic energy as a trace there is in brain surgery work is being done on the use of radio for us for us for the detection and exact location of brain tumors and the accuracy of the information that this new method supplies is leading to revolutionary results already several cases a brain tumor an ever two considered hopeless have been successfully operated on with the ada this great toll of medicine medical research is just one of the many uses of atomic energy as a benefit before we review the other beneficial uses let's look at the many places in america where for many years thousands of worked in the field of atomic energy well you've given us plenty to think about of course it's mainly in the future don't you want to contribute to the is a tracer tell me more about that well as a surgeon in boston using it with some kind of a geiger counter to locate the exact spot of the brain tumor hasn't been successful of course it's all very new but he's already had results in cases that seem to be hopeless vernon do you have some personal interest in this yes my grandchild the little girl you saw the staten island she's dying of a brain tumor you have the surgeons address sure let's go to your house we'll get him on the phone cover this is congressman maynard forgive me for calling you at this hour the professor colors gave me your name of this is pretty important a constituent of mine dr peters would like to talk to you yes that everybody hear about doc peterson he went to boston with a job i thought you were going back whether i was but i changed my mind i'm going to take the other plane tonight you know i had some sort of share in passing this resolution don't think i was right for me to walk out on it now well let's start by hearing what john has to say now mike this suppressed thing with me because just now i can only think of my own granddaughter it isn't fair for me to try and influence have got to make up your own minds on the whole picture but i've got this to say because of atomic research there's a chance now for my granddaughter but even more important there's a better chance for children like her in the future that is dip we don't put obstacles in the way of atomic research that's why for my own part i've got to withdraw my vote on the resolution i understand how you feel mr you say we have to take the whole picture now is it worth it as far as i'm concerned that isn't the point i voted against atomic energy because i thought it was the work of the devil now i know i was wrong you see god made the atom i see that now he made it just a surely as he made the hills in the sea and and life itself and god never made anything that fighting wars and and using what god has given us put put destruction yes but it happened and maybe it will happen again and much worse next time so what is it worth the men being what they are what didn't really have been better if the thing hadn't been invented may i say something go ahead i can only answer mr benson by telling him my colors and i came down here yesterday you know i don't leave washington every time a city council passes a resolution but this is something about which every town in america has to think clearly let's hope every town in the world of course you the energy in adam is the most destructive force the world has ever seen but as colors has shown us it can also be one of the greatest blessings god has ever given us which is it to be because on that depends the future of mankind we sometimes wish it hadn't been invented we're afraid of the responsibility because the results will be so terrible if we misuse but it has been invented and we have to take the responsibility we can't just shut our eyes to it you mr benson you saw the destructive side of hiroshima and now all of you with the hope that's been given to john vernon you've seen a little of the good it can bring and its promise for the future of the world that's how high the stakes are for good for people and that's the challenge you've accepted to do your part in making atomic energy not a curse but a blessing to mankind of course this is just one town and there are only a few of us in this room but all over america and all over the whole world to people must sooner or later face the same child i pray that they too make the right choice always we've muddled we've made mistakes but this time god has and trusted us with a physical force bigger than we've ever had before one that can destroy us and lead us on to new horizons and bliss choice before us god willing we shall not fail