SESSION VII 361 WARREN: Well, for about two to three months, and by that time most of those who were going to die had died. But they were still alarmed about whether this would not flare up again and there were lots of questions on this. UPTON: I can see how this would very seriously complicate the work of an emergency team. If the leader, so to speak, on whom all reliance was placed, developed radiation sickness himself and had to be replaced, and then his successor dropped dead by the wayside, this would be 2 very demoralizing and disruptive influence. WARREN: That's what hanpened with the Mayor in Hiroshima, He died. Also the commanding officer of the contingent bivouacked in Hiroshima and most of his aides suffered a delayed death, DUNHAM: situation, UPTON: I would expect this to go on much longer in a fallout Yes. DUNHAM: It would not all be LD-50, a 30-daysort of proposition with a few stragglers up until a month or two later, but you would expect certain groups of people to hit their peak mortality at sixty days. MILLET: appeared? WARREN: How did the leadership develop after these officials dis- Well, a young major came over from Kure and tried to take command, and, of course, he did not have any great number of troops available. He had been bombed over there, up at Yubo, and he didn't know quite what his prerogatives were, but he couldn't bring in any food although [ think he attempted several small provisions of food, In this chaotic period the strongest personalities will begin to emerge—the man with leadership. He appeared as the acting mayor who came up from the ranks, began to get clothing and orpanized the people and began to get food, and was finally the rmayor. But they had a couple of false starts, too. This was rather slower I think in developing than it would be in our country. You see, they really were under this military regime which, upto that puint, sent down dictums from above and the gendarmes relinquished their control rather reluctantly, but finally did. Of course, they had no mobs to deal with or anything of that nature.