SESSION VI
AYRES:
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They have an additional argument which gets linked with
thie, that it's cheaper to knock out the missile before it's launched
than it is to do it the other way,
TAYLOR:
ROOT:
No, but that's not the argument.
Am I wrong tn assuming that if we do have an ABM, that
maken a fallout shelter program absolutely imperative”
TAYLOR: That's what the Secretary of Defense has said, How.
ever, he hae not to my knowledge said anything about thie in the last
few monthe, I'm very curious ta see what he's going to say.
EISENBUD: f felt thie way at the time and { still do. I think that
the government really passed the buck down te the individual family
ine very unfla'r way. -had @ good opportunity to look into thie for
probably the No, | target, namely, New York, wheal chaired a com.
mittee appointed by the Mayor to look at the problem of civil defense
in New York, and, frankly, we came up with a recommendation that
ultimately led to the disbandment uf the local civil defense organizathon, a traneler of ite functions to the police and fire departments,
Now, the basic reason wae that we could get no backup from the
federal government,
New York is the headcuarters for the First
Army, which has some very important missions, Mainly, it's
charged with the movement ot materiel and personne! through the
metropolitan New York area in time of war, and yet we found that
the Firet Army, in order to implement ite miesioa had really not
considered how they would get through the city streets. They were
expecting the city police department ta do it and this pulice depattment had four channels of radio; the fire department had four channele, the civil defense had another four. There wete twelve voice
channels. In other words, in New York City, knock out the existing
communications system and they can only carry on twelve voice convereations at the present time and, as | said to somebody yesterday,
it would take all twelve people to find cut where the Mayor 18 and
whether he's still alive.
AYRES:
[think the telephone company probably has quite a num-
ber of additional channela,
EISENBUD:
time,
Did you check into that?
They may have it now.
They didn't have it at that
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