SESSION VII 351 WARREN: I think they would have had to do something like this anyway. After all, these were sophisticated peoole; they had a pretty sophisticated government; they had a big industry there, Of course, the military establishment was the major support of Nagasaki. Its people mainly perished. UPTON: citated? What fraction of the population perished or was incapa- WARREN: My figures, of course, are greater than others, but I get nearly 100, 000 in Nagasaki, which is well around half. It was the whole Urikami Valley clear to the terraces all around down as far as the Mitsubishi Works near the gas tanks, UPTON: It left a great many people, though, quickly to institute emergency measures. WARREN: ‘rho could begin Yes. FREMONT-SMITH: and perished? These 100,000 perished or were incapacitated ‘ WARREN: I think perished, FREMONT-SMITH: Then there must have been quite a large number that were also knocked out but were..... WARREN: Yes, but a lot of these perished right away. FREMONT-SMITH: Right. How many would you say were capable of functioning? That was really your question? UPTON: Yes. FREMONT-SMITH: 50,000 do you think? WARREN: Well, another 100, 000 in the town, say, within a day. These were cround the corner or across the Bay, you see. But they didn't want to go into this area. This was a different kind of explosion and the word got around awfully quickly that this was different. EISENBUD: You see, the situation would have been very differnt if instead of being air bursts these were surface bursts; if instead of