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WARREN: Which we couldn't resupply, though, onre it was used
up. I don't mean to be pessimistic, [ just wondered what the situation was.
AYRES:
I don't know that they could of couldn't.
EISENBUD: { wonder how long our ships could continue to oper_ ate if they couldn't get spare parts’ This is where you get into trou’ ble because noone has cnough knowledge about the details of our econ-
emy.
You can imagine how important this is,
There will be some
small plant on Long Island that makes something about as big as your
fist and because it's destroyed the ships can't go to sea, You see
that in strikes, A company will go on strike and its ramifications
are enormous,
AYRES:
An example might be the General Motors strike, where
the Fisher Body Plant was shut down and everybody eclee went out,
EISENBUD.
In this case it was the suppliers, you see, that went
out. But {'m thinking now about people who make small electzical
parts.
AYRES: There have been studies of this problum (Reference 52),
For example, the National Academyof Sciences Committee on Emergency Planning has made quite a point out of this. They have had a
number of meetings involving representatives from industry and they
have tried to think of specific viulnerabisities of this kind—bottlenecks
auhere, for lack of a nail, the shoe is lost, etc. And depending on
your attitude towards these things, you maythink they came up with
a lot of a little. My own feeling is they found surprisingly little,
One of the things that's aften mentioned in thie context is retraecthyl
lead. Rt happens to be made in two or three planta. On the other
hand, we don't need it. We could operate quite well without it if
you're willing to let your engines operate inefficiently. Certain things
are crucial, but you can usually find a way around them, and it's very
difficult to find something that you could be confistent would really knock
you out provided you can look fer alternatives, and [think probably the
lack of transportation is more crucia! than the other situation,
EISENUUD: ['] wager that there isn't one or two companies in the
United States making valves for pipeiines; you know. these big valves
that go into pipelines,