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being 29 kilotons they were miore lixe 100 kilotons or a couple of
megatons; and, iet's say, in addition to Hiroshima being bombed,
Kure, a short distance away, was also bombed.
WARREN:

This would huve eliminated the help.

EISENBUD: And this really is the extrapolation that’s hard to make,

For ‘hose of you who haven't seen it, | would urge that you took at the
maps that are incluce: in the volumes of your Joint Committee on
Atomic Energy showing the fallout patterns throughout the United

States and particularly of the eastern United States coated with lethal

levels —superlethal levels of radioactivity.
excess of 100 or 500 r total,

In other words, levels in

WARREN: This really wasn't much differer! from Yokohama or
some of the other places cxcept it happened in one day.

EISENBUD:

That's right.

So this ceally is the bridge that we find

hard to cross because of lack of experience,

DUNHAM: Let me ask a question, Staff. It may sharpen up this
other thing again, From what you saw and heard, even if these cities
nad been isolated and no help had been able to get in in any big way,
such as DDT, would there have been a real problem of epidemic
disease other than insect-borne or tick-borne? In other words, would
typhus be the critical one you would worry about?
WARREN:

Well, typhus coming from returning soldiers.

DUNHAM: But would they have been able to handle the ordinary
water-borne diseases in the absence, say, of a flu epidemic which
nobo 'y can either increase or decrease? Typhoid or cholera—would
it have been thinkable or unthinkable?
WARREN: This matter caine up in the first week because of the
bloody diarrhea which the patients had who had the gastrointestinal
destruction, and for a couple of days they tried to mobilize wiuatever
resources they could get to deal with the impending cholera or typhoid
epidemic, This consisted mainly of getting ready to throw out the
tuberculosis patients who could be handled cutside, and expecting to
bring in 2 limited number of casualties to these two or three tuberculosis hospitals which were on the cutskirts, maybe five ar six
miles our. But other than that they had no resources to deal with it,

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