SESSION Vu 369 get the information in the first hours when you need it for decisionmaking purposes, DUNHAM: You can get it after the stuff had blown away. Aftor that, yes. RISENBUD: Right. [n other words, it could be travic if you keep all of your police force underground because you think that you can't sacrifice them by sending them out, if it turns Gut that the levels were actually low enough so that they couid go cut and perform their duties. On the cther hand, if you hag misinformation you could send thern out and kall thern with a few thousand rr, So the anforrnation has to be good, it has to be delivered promptly, ard it has to be delivered with a fair amount of detail with respect to poosraphical coverape, FREMONT-SMITH: And it has to be believed, EISENBUD: [just don't knowof a single system that would do that anywhere in the United States. [may be wrong, because [haven't had contact with it in the last few years, WARREN: I dislike very much the thought which is in the minds of certain mayors that l've dealt with—"Well, if we get an alert, we'll put up all the equipment that you want and you won't have this gap." This came out in the discussion with the supervisors, too, but they agreed to these seven stations with power and everything, The reason for the emergency power that we were so quick in obtaining is that the same need comes up for monitoring of the ozone and other instrumentation for carbon monoxide, to avoid having a power failure, which is not uncommon in our area for smail periods of time. These stations all have emercency power for active momtoring of ecuipment for radiation safeguards, If each had been put out there by nself we would have had a more expensive installation to supply :t and we might have failed to get them, DUNHAM: Merril's proposition is that you've got seven stations for the whole State of California. WARREN: At first this was the case, DUNHAM: Maybe it's 50 now, brut it still doesn't give you a real pattern,