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And it is necessary to pursue that distinction.

We

should notice also that while most industries are ultimately convertible or applicable to the prosecution of war, it is possible to distinguish between industries
in the degree of their immediate indispensability for war purposes,

TFinally,

while industries attract population and vice versa, modern means of transportation make possible a locational flexibility between an industry and those people
who service it and whom it serves.
Thus it would seem that the first step-in reducing our national vulnerability
is to catalog the industries especially and immediately necessary to atomic bomb
warfare—-a relatively small proportion of the total-~and to move them out of our
cities entirely.

Where those industries utilize massive plants, those plants

should as far as possible be broken up into smaller units.

Involved in such a

movement would be the labor forces which directly service those industries,

The

great mass of remaining industries can be left wherethey-are within the cities,
but the population which remains with them can be encouraged, through the further
development of suburban building, to spread over a greater amount of space.

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areas deserving to be condemnned in any case could be converted into public parks
or even airfields.

The important element in reducing casualties is after all nov

the shape of the individual city but the spatial density of population within it,
Furthermore, the systems providing essential services, such as those supply-

ing or distributing food, fuel, water, communications, and medical care, could
and should be rearranged geographically.

Medical services, for example, tend to

be concentrated not merely within cities but in particular sections of those cities.

The conception which might govern the relocation of services within the

cities is that which has long been familiar in warship design——-compartmentation,
And obviously where essential services for larce rural areas are wimecessarily

concentrated in cities, they should be moved out of them,
tains especially to communications,

That situation per-

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