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decisions, Then you need physical damage assessment,
to get it out?

HEMLER:

This is the question.

Who's going

The first things that you were

asking about, the detonation location, and so forth, can be determined

very quickly, assuming again this is a tocalized situation, There are
aircraft and other instrumentation methods that can move in quickly
and get this type of information. The question of on-the-spot physical
damage I think is probably the one that you are talking about. It is
rot so well defined as to who docs this, where it's passed to and
where the a. zessment occurs, Where the assessment occurs could
be well defined. [t's how the information gets there to be assessed.
It's well defined as to where it occurs in several places. It's not
defined as to when it would arrive or who would provide it.
SPEAR: A question was raised a little while ago about the plan
for issuing information. I can't pretend to be completely current
on this now, but I'm sure we all remember some years back there
was something known as Conelrad, This was a system designed to
get out at least a minimum of information while denying electronic
radiation as a navigation guide to bombers. That was thrown out a
while ago and in its place there has been established an Emergency
Broadcasting System.
The programming of this has been the subject of a good deal of
planning between Civil Defense and broadcast officials, The emergency lines have been installed, bypassing the major centers, A
good question, of course, is what information is to be broadcast?
Here I'm not current by any means, but when I last had contact with
it,

the information, before one knows what the situation is,

was the

lind of thing that is found in the lit‘le yellow booklet. Ata time
when some of the general precauticns are certainly in order for the
population, the policy would be to give out as much useful information as possible on protective measures, I don't know whether you
hear this around where you live, but as I listen to the radio in my
car every now and agaia there is a beep, followed by the announcement: ‘The next minute will be devoted to a test of the Emergency
Broadcasting System," This, of course, is testing the hookups to be
sure that they are working.
AYRES: Incidentally, as of last summer FCC was very seriously
considering 2 test program in which there would be a switch installed
on a number of radios which could be triggered by the broadcast it-elf

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