Movie Details
Theatrical Release:January 1st, 1953
Original Language:English
Production Companies:John Sutherland Productions General Electric
A Is for Atom (1953)
Audience Score
Plot
General Electric sponsors this explanation of atomic energy detailing some of its uses besides the bomb Using animation and an offscreen narrator the film describes the atom elements and isotopes the discovery of transmutation experiments in artificial transmutation and the reasons for the power of nuclear fission The film argues that now besides war the atomic age holds promise for energy farming medicine and research The promise of the atomic age will depend on human wisdom
