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and I was talking as if it were a prepared situation,

But again, some

will find nothing when they come out, depending on where they are.

Some will find everything very nicely arranged for ten days or so
when they come out and there will be an in-between. I would assume
that a very important consideration will be how we get into communication with other areas to find out how bad (he situation really is.

What do we expect?

Is there another bomb coming down, and, if so,

when and where? What kind of social organization can be expected
the next ten days or so?
TAYLOR:

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Are you putting that in the prepared situation?

FREMONT-SMITH: Yes. I am talking about @ prepared situation.
1 would think that if we were going to try to face this, we ought to

say, ‘Well, let's take a prepared situtation, let's take an unprepared
situation, let's take a semi- prepared situation and take each one

separately and try to follow each one through."
TAYLOR: Yes,

So long as we undez stand what we are talking

about. Otherwise, one person is walking into an unprepared world
and another one is walking into one that has a $100 billion civil defense program prior to the attack.
FREMONT-SMITH:

TAYLOR:

Which one would you like to start with?

Maybe the real one,

AYRES: I'd like to interject a statement about the water supply.
In some cases, as, for example, New York and a good many others,
there would be plenty of water unless the Kensico Dam in White
Plaine happened to be destroyed. The pipes are deep and under very

high pressure,

Although some of the surface pipes would be broken,

you would have water. In cases like the cities along the Great Lakes,
which get their water from the Lakes, the water supply would depend
- upon the electric pumpa. To the extent that they had reserve power,
they would have water, To the extent that ‘ney didn't, it would depend on whether the main power supply wan operating or not. Ina lot

of cases it would be operating because, as I mentioned earlier, gen-

- erating equipment tends to be relatively hard compared to other facil.
ities, Many other cities get water from wella, and again it depends
on whether they have reserve pumping capacity and whether they have
to depend on the main power, In some cases the main power would
survive or it would be possible to get power from another area through

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