DASA 2019-2 324 HEMLER: Just to take an example here, there are conditions of readiness that the Armed Forces are in at all times and there are degrees, They're actually defined, and the same thing is true vith your civil defense forces, the same thing is true with your governmental officials. As the policy makers decide that a condition has been reached— and they have very definitive criteria for deciding this—the Armed Forces move to a new condition of readiness and this goes throughout the world. FREMONT-SMITH: This is announced to the world? HEMLER: By instant communication, Let me point this out. As thev move through these conditions of readiness, the forces get more ani more alert. More and more people get involved. The point [ think that Bob is making here is that during the Cuban crisis, for example, the readiness of the Armed Forces did not get down to even the level nearest the condition, the final condition, TAYLOR: Remember Pear! Harbor. HEMLER: They were several conditions away from full alert, but they had not reached a condition of readiness criteria where the civil defense began to be completely and wholly alerted, and so forth, AYRES: People keep forgetting that at the time of Pear] Harbor, we had issued an ultimatum to the Japanese. TAYLOR: AYRES: That's my whole point, And we were waiting for their response. ~\ TAYLOR: Bob, that's rny whole point. We got right down to the wire and still the civil defense authorities were not deployed. That's my point. HEMLER: The way that things are defined now—andthis isn't particularly classified in any sense of the word—that ultimatum would now take us to the condition where all of your civil defense forces would be notified. have been laid out, In other words, it has been defined and the criteria