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TAYLOR: It's probably reasonable,

BUSTAD: I would say that's too high, much teo high acutely because most of them are away from the target areaz..

AYRES:

value.

This was 5? percent counterforce, $0 percent counter.

A lot of military targets are in agricultural areas,

BUSTAD We just said that at this kind of doze you're going to
have two kinds of casualties. This was just centered into the computer, I’m just going by intuition now, and the location of the majority of the livestock,

EISENBUD: [he thing that I do remember is that on the maps |

saw, all ofthe dairy cattle in vue part of the country, in the North.
east, would have died, all of them.
AYRES:

Yes, but that's only a small fraction,

EISENBUD:
BUSTAD:

Yes.

Let’stry 25 or 30 percent.

FREMONT-SMITH:
at least”.
AYRES:

Still that's where we get our milk.

And then injury will be another equal number

Not necessarily,

SREMONT-SMITH:
to be dead'

Docent ayury count’

Injured badly cnough

BUSTAD: Are you talking of the acute situation or what the casualthes are after asx months’ Thisis rather critical, [ think,
EISENBUD. I think six months would be the fair one. Of course,
that's hara to evaluate, [think the hearings count was, as - recall,
&@ situation at about 30 days.
AYRES: Yes, but their criterion was, I think, that you would cither
recover or you would not, It wae about a 30-day period,
EISENBYUD

Yes.

That's right.

These are the basic statistics.

There were also statistics that I don't recall about the number of

individual homes that would be destroyed, the number that would be

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