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damaged beyond repair and would have to be evacuated.

I don't re-

call the figures, Il wonder if any of you do. I would certainly hope
that they could be in the record of this discussion when the transcript
finally comes up.

TAYLOR:

They must have been approximately in the ratio of the

rural to the urban population, which is maybe a third. That's a third
of the houses which survive, but they would be almost all rural.
That must be within a factor of two,
EISENBUD:

Yes,

TAYLOR:

Would survive’

DUNHAM:

It would be a third of tne suburban houses that would

survive,

EISENBUD. These are the casualties that resulted from the initial —

strike. They do not or did not include, for example, casualties from
starvation resulting from the fact that perhaps the crops are standing
in the field when the attack comes and nobody harvests them. So all
the crops rot, warehouses burn; there might be a lack of water, not
so much because the water is contaminated but simply because the
distribution systems are destrayed, I¢ did not contemplate the effects

of disease, the fact that medical facilities would be inadequate to deal
with disease,

:

Then one has to consider what happens afterwards, because surcly
there will be some period which might be only six months or it might
be six centurics while there would be a continued attrition in society
due to the fact that society hadn't quite recovered enough to deai with
the raft of explosions, the insects, the -iruses and God knows what,
UPTON:

The absence of a major effect on other continents?

EISENBUD: You would have to assume that there was about equal
devastation or more in Europe.
DUNHAM:
AYRES:

What about Canada?

I think the attack covered Canada as well,

EISENBUD:

Yes.

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