“3a, 277 SESSION VI PSYCHOSOCIAL REACTIONS INTRODUCTION EISENBUD: The interest in thie morning's subject is made obvious by the way it has pervaded the discussion of the past two days. Iwas very happy when I learned that our discussion this morning would not,of necessity,be limited to the psychosocial implications of the three events that we have discussed so far in this series, namely, the two Japanese bombings, the Fukurvu Maru incident and the Mar- shallese incident, and the Spanish incident, Instead, we will try to roam the whole field of the psychosocial implications of nuclear warfare. Ithink it may perhaps be worth a moment to explore the mean- ing of at least the social part of "psychosocial," I would consider this to include al! aspects of man's social structure including economic, cultural, theological and any other of the “ologies"’ that may go into the society that he has constructed, I suggest that we look at these questions in three phases. I can think of designations for the first and third. I think of the first phase as the prologue, that portion of the aiscussion that would be concerned with what happens before war comes and the ways in which the war can be prevented or its cffects mitigated. The third ix the epilogue, being what the effects would be ifthe war came, But, for some rea- son, I couldn't think of what the middle section would be called. However, through my learned associates, namely John Wolfe and Austin Brues, I was made to realize that what happens in the middle is the logue, which had never occurred to me before! [Laughter] will think of the prologue, the logue and the epilogue. FREMONT-SMITH: ROOT: Yes. EISENBUD: So, we The "logue" is a word, In the beginning was the ‘logue! [Laughter] Let's go back in time, let's say before 1400. We can go back as far as you like and then go forward onto, say, infinity, but we are really talking about the next century or so, perhaps. This