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Aucbvax.1436 fa.arms-d utzoo!duke!mhtsa!ucbvax!CAULKINS@USC-ECL Thu May 28 13:26:02 1981 Re: Tues PM;Weapons Crisis Week at Stanford In response to your message sent 28 May 1981 11:45-EDT

I haven't my notes in front of me, but my recollection of what Tsipis said is as follows:

All reasonably flammable material (paper, wood, shake roofs, drapes, etc., etc.) would be ignited out to a radius of 5 kilometers (soft number subject to my faulty memory) and thus firestorms were likely in areas of residential type construction.

He did not address the question of quantity of fuel per unit area, which I guesss would be what would determine whether a firestorm would form.

He mentioned Dresden, a non-Japanese city in which there was a firestorm after the massive British air raid in WWII.

Dave C -------

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