SESSION VII 381 LANGHAN!: And came back over his secondary target and dropped it through a hole in the clouds. Nagasaki, There was a heavy cloud cover at There was less at Hiroshima, EISENEPUD: My question wasn't directed at the veneral situation with respoit to moisture, What kind of erain’ WARREN: The humidity was up. This was just before the typhoon started and the rains came a vreat deal about the time we were there, We were worried about our instrunents vetting wet and shorting, batteries running down end that sort of thing, the - We would frequeatly have to wait until the shower was tnrouch and then go out again, DUNHAM. May Lask a question inimy ignorance’ ‘This vets inte the definition of a so-called fire storm. [sn'tt almost by definition self-limiting because it sets up air currents towards ioel!? AYRES: Yes, DUNHAM: FISENBUD- Once it's been defined, that is”? Yes, but it probably would oscillate, In other words, after it burned out then the storm effect would stop. DUNHAM: Yes, EISENBUD: And then you would have a hot area which could be carried by the existing winds and, if there was enough combustibility, start ancther fire storm somewhere, AYRES: They do tend to burn more cormpletely thin confleurations. Once you have a fire storm, probabiv by the time ait burns out theres nothing left in the area, EISENBUD. No, but then you've got a large area of several square miles with hot ashes in it and it can start fires elsewhere in normal situations, HEMLER: EISENBUD: But not right by the fire storm. No, not right by the fire storm. WARREN: Isn't there also apt to be an oxycen di ficit right around the fire so that a lot of people can die from the oxygen deficit”?