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Certain moral questions also appear in this issue. Familiar to everyone is the matter of shooting the neighbor who attempts to invade the family shelter. But more pressing than this is the government's attitude that the death of one half of the country should be simply accepted while plans are made to save the other half. In Cambridge, for example, at least half the populace will be left without protection...
...final danger lies in the government's deception of the people on the matter of nuclear war. Despite the claims of some shelter supporters, the Civil Defense program has not presented Americans with an honest picture of nuclear war. Most of the literature sounds as if it were written for the London blitz, and fails to see the qualitative difference between the V-2 and ICBM. Cambridge, for example, distributes one book-let that was written in 1950 and discusses an atomic bomb the size of the ones used over Japan. Another booklet begins, "Remember grandma's pantry, its shelves...
Once again, it must be emphasized that this discussion is not meant to convey a hard and fast view of shelters and shelter society, but merely point out the areas that must be discussed and considered before one embarks on a shelter program. In the words of the Peace Research Institute, "...in virtually no society is there any precedent for maintaining a large portion of a civilian population over a long time in trained readiness for a threatening event with a low probability of occurrence...
...discuss these matters at all, and did not fully cover the military and technical aspects of the problem. The committee submitted its report as a preliminary statement, and President Pusey dissolved the group before it could complete its final study. Harvard must not only be sure its shelter decision is correct for the University, but must also bear in mind the influence that any shelter action will have on both the Cambridge community and other institutions. The Faculty members claimed to be aware of this responsibility when they made the shelter report, but this report did not measure...
...present, Harvard has not yet irrevocably committed itself to fallout shelters, and it is still possible to give the matter the study it deserves, taking into account the new research which has been done in the past year. Another Faculty committee should either reaffirm or revoke the shelter decision, but only after giving the problem the attention that its importance actually warrants...