‘ wed DLE aa a This is the circulated agenda for the FAND-Oabriel Conferched, ” which I hope all ef you have available, The starting hour] was (vas wrong, it was a mistake of ours and I am sorry, 90 1¢ . meare the worning session will be a hhif hour shorter and I am going to clip ay introductory coments, The purpose of the Gabriel Project you probably kmow, most] of you, The question is whether an atomic war leads to widespread destruction of human life separate fron blast and ordinary boeb effects, That is, for exmaple, whether the radioactivity intreduced by th explosion of atomic weapons is dangerous and at what becomes dangerous. levels Now, there may be other aspectss I seq Colonel Lulejian here - which are nonradioactive but which might worldwide effects. it fave A suggestion of the Colonal's < just a atomic weapons, I think a very interesting one, which might widespread effects on the climate. So there are various have fepects of the Cabriel Project which are nonradioactive, but I believe it is most likely that the most serious effects of the atasic war falling - in the province of Gabriel will be the question of world radioactivity. How the purpose of the Rill-Gabriel is ta consider this problem in all ite aspects in a sumer study and to present the conclusions to the Division of Biology and Wedicine, kh Washington AEC, and the U.S. Air Porce I believe is also finterested in it. There have been several Oabriel studies in the past uhich have been vary good, I think, but which have had the comion weakness that they did not proceed to a testing of the conclusiong, We have taken the point of view that no zatter how reasonable a det of Tec i a THIS DOCUMENT comer or 302pac Pommefe OF MO COPLES. al