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”?