MISSION
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To makeanestimate of:
A. Theeffects, over time, on human attitudes and behavior of
(1) General awareness by the civilian population of a nation that an enemy or potential Fnemy
has the technological capability of annihilating such nation; (see text, page 5).
(2) the same awareness with the additional factor that the equivalent technological cappbility
of annihilation is possessed by such nation, or friendly nations, which could produce
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annihilation in the event of resort to such technological capabilities in a war. (Sde text,
page 17.)
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B. The probable attitudes (of people) toward the initiation of general war by the constituted Feaders
of nations, or members of powerblocs, possessing mutually destructive technological capability.
(See Summary,para. 1f, and text, page 19.)
C. The effects upon the civilian population and upon organized society in a nation engagefl in a
general war where full use is made of known and readily foreseeable technological capabilities.
(See Summary, para., 1a and text, page 9.)