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EISENBUD:
put ina filter,
TAYLOR:
around,
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You would have to take out the carbon monoxide and
chemicals,
Yes,
and so on,
It's a littre easier than if there's just no oxygen
EISENBUD: Yes. Well, Mr. Chairman, do you think we ought to
spend the remaining minutes to see if there's a consensus on anys
thing?
WARREN:
{Laughter
£
You mean you would hke a little prayer at this point”
ERISENBUD. There aren't many things that there's peneral apreecment on, but }think—no, there are several, I think it seems to be
generally aureed that, for example, our country would not be wiped
out completely; that there would be foci capable of assisting survival
in the other parts of the country, so that is it fair to say that if this
is so, we certainly are not going to drop down to 1400, but it would
probably be, Ict's say, 1900. Where would you place the level ot
subsistence? The economy is going to drop down so the peuple are
living on a scale of economy.....
AYRES:
In 1900 what was the U.S,
GNP (Gross National Product) ?
It was around $20 billion.
DUNHAM:
AYRES:
By our dollars or their dollars’
[think by comparable dollars.
DE BOER:
That's usually adjusted,
DUNHA M:
It is?
DE BOER:
Yes.
EISENBUD: These are important figures,
$20 billion in 1900, Over how manypeople’
DE BOER:
I hope you're right.
100 million,
BUSTAD: Have I been suffering under a misapprehension’ Asa
rule of thumb [ assumed the predicted attack at the present cuime tnight