8. Should this happen, the pressure for public showing of the declassified film will become very strong. Indeed, the pressure already has started on the basis of rumors about the content of the film, 9, Although the TOP SECRET and SECRET versions of the film were previously shown to limited audiences whose official duties required their viewing it, one report on the film's content | already has been published (the November 1953 issue of FORTUNE DOE ARCHIVES magazine, page 121): "There is little doubt that the small atoll upon which the device, forerunner of the H-bomb, was detonated was indeed blasted off the face of the Pacific, Where it had been was left a submarine crater several hundred feet deep and wide enough to swallow a dozen Pentagons, The fireball was more than three miles in diameter, The radioactive cloud that materialized from it soared toa height of perhaps twenty miles, in the span of probably twice mentioned. If in destructive well into the stratosphere, a few minutes, and the energy released was the four to five megaton estimates usually that was so, the Eniwetok experiment was, power released, equal to between 400 and 500 Hiroshimas." On November 16, 1953, the Associated Press correspondent assigned to the Department of Defense placed a request with the Public Information Service that correspondents be permitted to view the film at least for useful background informationinreporting to the general public as accurately as possible within security limitations progress on the government's national defense programs. 10. Resisting the pressure for public showing of a declassified film will place the AEC in the position of withholding material which will not affect the common defense and security, according to its own official determination, and which is of absorbing interest to the American public. It seems prudent to the Division of Information Services to évoid this dilemma py determining that following the showing to the Mayor's Con- e