Chitra Katha photo poster No. 12: Oak Ridge atomic energy for peace (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca)
A Bengali photo sheet on the Oak Ridge atomic research centre in Tennessee. Photographs show the 'American Museum of Atomic Energy', foreign scientists training in radioisotope use, isotopes shipped to 57 countries, a reactor being lowered into a shaft, and radioisotopes used in cancer treatment and plant research. The tell is glittering-generalities and card-stacking: atomic energy is presented through peaceful, medical and educational uses only.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- June 3, 1957
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- Science and technology, Health
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, June 3, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948800, 306-PPB-34h).
Text on the object
চিত্র কথা [Photograph sign:] AMERICAN MUSEUM OF ATOMIC ENERGY Issue No. 12 Published weekly for U.S.I.S, Dacca by Jatiya Mudran. Editor's Note :-- Please Post in Public Place, such as School Room, Bulletin Board Etc.
Chitra Katha (Picture Story) [English sign and imprint lines as printed.]
Masthead, headlines and imprint transcribed; the Bengali body captions beneath the photographs are not transcribed in full.
