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...special report to President Pusey, the Committee asserted that an extensive shelter building program would be premature in the light of national policy, but urged that the University give immediate attention to the possibility of converting already existing space for fallout protection...
Harvey Brooks, Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics and Chairman of the Committee, said yesterday that "Harvard already has more than enough space to shelter the entire University community," He stressed that "some space could be used as it is now," but the other areas "would require such construction as blocking of windows and doors...
Economic complications stemming from civil defense would also block negotiation, conference members said. The vested interests of governmental agencies, private builders and suppliers, and a cadre of trained shelter managers would by their very existence if not by active agitation interfere with planning for general disarmament, they claimed...
Besides complicating U.S. diplomacy vis-a-vis the Soviet Union, a shelter program could seriously injure relations with allies and friendly neutrals, the conference added. "Through civil defense, the American people would in effect be working for their own survival while tacitly abandoning non-Americans to thermonuclear death...
Riesman's observations have found that "in at least one ally, Japan, there is considerable uneasiness over the American shelter program and fear that it may symbolize a turning inward of American interests and policy...