16 . DASA 2019-2 1. We have a lot of misinformation, 2. We don't knuw enough about the eifects of nuclear weapons on man, 3. We do not have an infinite amount of time and monev to do something about this lack of knowledge. 4. We need priorities, not only in tie biological or medical sciences, but priorities in terms of all scientific purauit. 5. We do not live ina vacuum, nor canwe. We need each other, These anterdisciplinary study groups, with follow-up research sugResttous, may be the Leginning in providing sume answers and may tveatually prevent a holocauat. Jeasi [like to think it ce not. It is not an impossible task, at TAYLOR: I'm fed Taylor. [ spent most of the war going to Cal Tech aw a Navy apprentice seaman, After the war was over I went to the University of California, and in 1949 [ went to Los Alamos and spent seven or eight years there working on the design of nuclear weapons. From there lL went to General Atomic in San Diego at about the time it was formed and spest «ix or seven years there, mostly promoting a scary proyect that many oeople didn't like: propelling big apace vehicles by a series of wuclear explosions, From General Atornc [went to the Pentagon and worked two years in DASA, It was at that point that somehow several people siumnultaneously got on to the idea that a collection of people more or tess like tnis group here was a gond collection to get together, probably several times aver qute a lung time. The main sorts of things that [had in mind in thinking aoout this had to do with possible things that the Defense Department might do that it was not doing and that would be the result cf more detailed understanding of what the long-range effects of various types of nuclear war might be. I still Selieve that there are some things that would Le rational things to du that are not now being done and that are difficult to do without knowing more about what the long- range effects might be. The kinds of things I have in mind are such things as changing the way in which missiles are targeted so that, for example, instead of mostly going off on the grovad, they would go cff in the air in such a way as to produce ednentially nevligible local fallout but would disperse the fission products all aver the atmosphere, IL don't know of anyone who has said that he thinks it's clear which type