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SESSION VI
AYRES:
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Good heuvens, no!
DUNHAM: It might be! [Laughter]
ROOT: Then let me throw that into the hopper. Hudson Institute
hae a fat volume, called The Year 2900 (Reference 54) coming out
in a couple of months which aleo deals with what there will be left.
It had a section on nuclear war when I saw it in manuscript form.
Also limited wars. It has a lot of scenarios but it also talks about
limited warfare and limited nuclear weapons.
MILLET: Lf I may speak to the prologue for a minute, we started
a series of round tables at the American Psychiatric on transcultural
reactions of various sorts, and the first one we had was on civilian
tensions in the atomic age. This was dated 1961. It has never been
published.
It contained rather an interesting conglomeration of ideas
on the subject.
sen. around,
Perhaps it might be timely to have that copied and
FREMONT-SMITH: It would be fine if you could get a copy to this
group.
MILLET:
I tried to get opinions from different people in different
countries, and so on.
We didn't get much out of anybody except the
Americans, and from people who had immigrated to America from
different countries, India and Holland, for example.
EISENBUD: The group that could be most influential in pushing
that point, nuclear ‘var ona large scale, off until infinity, of course,
would be the decision-makers of our society, people that influence
what is done. These are the people, mainly, that we elect to office,
influenced by civilians of a variety of types, such as people from
academic institutions, heads of large corporations, and religious
leaders. I gathered from the discussion of the past two days that
some of us think that perhaps the decision-makers in some cases
haven't been well-informed and in other cases haven't deen well-
motivated.
1 often think of something that Oppenheimer said in one 2f the last
public appearances before he got sick, in which he pointed out that
one of the greatest dangers is that man would go to nuclear war for
trivial reasons because the consequences of the nuclear war wouldn't
really be appreciated by the people that had to make the decision.