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Scientists, British and American, have made the atomic bomb at last.
A short time ago,
an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.
That bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of PNP.
President Truman says that the Allies have spent 500 million pounds on what he calls the greatest scientific gamble in history.
And they've won.
Summer 1945 was a turning point for American science.
The deadly dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan symbolized their unrivaled technical prowess,
science in the service of the country's war effort.
And just weeks before,
the organizer of that effort unveiled a blueprint for how science could continue to serve America in peace.
I go back really to 1945 when Vannevar Bush,
an advisor to then President Roosevelt, wrote a report called Science, the Endless Frontier.
And he outlined a science policy,
which has been the unwritten policy of the United States ever since then.
So for 75 years.
And it's worked.
I'm Ronan Peace, and as a global science journalist with almost 40 years in the business,
I've seen those successes time after time after time.