DISARMAMENT ON TV
NEW YORK, April 5. A half-hour documentary film presenting the conflicting views of East and West on disarmament and showing the havoc wreaked in Hiroshima by the atomic bomb was shown last night by a New York television station. The film, which showed the representatives of the Big-five Powers debating the subject in the United Nations, ended with a message from Sir Leslie Mtinro, of New Zealand, president of the United Nations General Assembly It was inspired by an item proposed in the General Assembly by Belgium calling for an international educational programme to make all people aware of the effects of modern weapons and of the need for effective measures of control for any disarmament agreement. Missile Destruction Called “The Count-down,” the film also showed the potential destructiveness of modern missiles and rockets armed with thermonuclear warheads. There were shots of these weapons provided by both the United States and the Soviet Union. Produced by the United Nations television station, the film will not be shown on networks, but will tour the United States and be shown on local television stations.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28554, 7 April 1958, Page 11
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