346 DASA 2019-2 AYRES: I think we have a good lesson from World War I where after Germany was defeated instead of coming in with help, we blockaded it. That didn't prevent German recovery. Actually Germany wasn't physically damaged, which is a good point, but their economy was almost wrecked by the inflation. - act FREMONT-SMITH: AYRES: Was the inflation due to our blocking them ? Yes, substantially so. HEMLER: But in World War II we had even more than that situation as a scenario really. We have it where the economy has been wrecked, wuere its cities and industries have been largely destroyed and we do have the radiation environment that we've been talking about. FREMONT-SMITH: In Japan. HEMLER: We have what you might call a limited nuclear war, a situation that we've been mentioning here, one type of weapon on New York and that sort of thing. I think somebody has mentioned the fact, I think it's true, that we talked best from things that we have had experience with, realizing, of course, that there are some culturaal differences that have been brought out in the last several days. I was just wondering what people thought about it being arpropriate to make that type of extrapolation with that single assumption rather than trying to go this large scale route in a big hurry. FREMONT-SMITH: Do we have data as to how soon and how much we brought into Japan? Was it almost immediately? It was in some respects of course. You brought plasma in almost instantaneously. WARREN: Yes. FREMONT-SMITH: HEMLER: What else happened? By September Ist we had forces :n there. you probably are more familiar with this. Well, Stafford, WARREN: You mean as far as forces were concerned? As soon as the surrender was over, of course, we had this huge fleet in Tokyo Harbor and they went to shore and began to spend money. HEMLER: Within 30 days.