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ROOT:
DASA 2019-2
[ would not think you could anticipate the delivery of a hy-
drogen bomb from a country that had not already teated.
Great Britain is no threat tous.
TAYLOR: The fission bomb is a different story.
delivered by anybody.
ROOT:
BRUES:
We know
It would be either Russia or China.
That could be
Yes.
1 think the timing is another question.
!! seems to me
that, at least in our public statement--[ don't know about our inside
knowledge—we have consistently underestin:ated the rate at which the
development would be made in other places,
FREMONT-SMITH:
ROOT:
Yes, every time.
The tag has always been tess than we have given them.
FREMONT-SMITH:
That's right.
WARREN: You can't teli whether it's a fishing expedition. They
may know a good deal more but they made the charge and then see
what happens when they get a rebuttal; more information comes from
it. The trouble is we've got all kinds of activities at different levels
that we do not knowabout.
FREMCNT-SMITH:
We don't know perhaps about each other.
UPTON: You mentioned some American personnel on an island
nearby there. Are data available on relative degrees of contamination
in comparison with the ground level in these groups? I myself am
wondering to what extent sheltering was effective under those conditions.
CONARD: Well, they were certainly quite effective {rom the point
of view. of the skin contamination and the internal absorption of materials.
UPTON:
And the thyroids were not particularly hot?
CONARD: Wedidn't examine the thyroids from that point of view
originally. We didn't suspect that they would have any thyroid accumulations at that point. Kut the American servicemen definitely had