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WARREN: You're not talking about fallout; you're talking about
what resources are available when you emerge from your shelter.

WOLFE: Well, they may or may not be availabJe. If they are
available, they might be some distance, The way I visualize this is
that suddeniy the population of all ages becomes sort of senile.

body is going to grab the ball and run a hundred yards,

No-

This sort of

thing must be some sort of shock and [ haven't been able to find out
what they did at Nagasaki anc Hiroshima? What did those people do?
WARREN: Those that were left escaped very shortly after the
blast into the surrouncing countryside, generally with an amnesia.
They didn't know how they got there. The catastrophe was so great
that very few of them did any useful work for quite some time. Those
who wandered back to start building again or who tried to erect some

kind of a chack were most!y squatters who cidn't own the land in the
first place.

But the farmers and the fisherrien were still just the

same—those who were out in the periphery and who hadn't been touched
by this.
FREMONT-SMITH: There won't be so much periphery according
to this.
WARREN: There was no periphery there, although the other part
-of the war had touched the other big cities which were similarly badly damaged.

WOLFF:

If there are 200 targets, I suppose we have to 1ssume

that they are all going to be hit or nearly so. Just wander out in the
country, this would be a psychological thing that most of you people
know more about than I do, but I can't imagine that we're going to
get in there ard start to rebuild right tomorrow or next month or
maybe for months to come.
FREMONT-SMITH: Aren't peopie going to be very much concerned
as to what they're going to have to face the next few weeks?
WOLFE:

[think they're going to have to be concerned about where

they're going to get their n-:i:t drink of water.

FREMONT-SMITH: Yes. Some of them will have a little water,
but at least it will be the most immediate thing. It is not what's going
to happen next month but what's going to happen in 6 days or 60 days

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