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UPTON: Wouldn't people want some information first of all? You
would want to know whether you're safe where you are or whether
you need to go someplacc else,

rAYLOR:

The only people who can know that are people with

some understanding of these things right with the people and I think
that’s why I keep harking back to this bueiness of there not being a
large number of individuals who are designated before an attack as
being the persons to whom people will turn. When 18 people go into
a room, if no such person is designated, probably someone will
emerge as just sort of taking hold, the way people always do. That's
why I say the leaders will just pop up; the real, on-the-spot leaders
will just appear,
FREMONT-SMITH:

The information wouldn't be available Jocally.

TAYLOR: They do the best they can. They'll make decisions of
all kinds that they never imagined they would ever make before.
HEMLER:

And presently the information will get to them,

TAYLOR: Part of the time they will tell people to do exactly the
opposite of what they should do, and I think that's the difficulty. This

shouldn't be the case.

People should be designated and have some

idea of what the right thing te do is and w' at's the wrong thing to do,
but that situation doesn't exist.
AYRES: You still have a credibility problem.
son were designated, is he believed?
TAYLOR:

Evenif sucha per-

If he's got an armband ane a tin hat or something.

EISENBUD:

Is the confusion in this discussion due to the fact

that the experience of Hiroshima, the Marshall Islands,

Hamburg,

London, is simply notapplicable to what we're talking about and we
have to agree with Kant that all knowledge has to stem from experience and we just haven't had the experience? Is that a fair assumption? Is this why we're beating around the bush?
MILLET:

I would back that one, yes,

FREMONT-SMITH:

I think it's semi- fair,

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