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AUG 6 1971

Date:
To  : AJR. Day ACDA
From: J. Lederberg
SusJect: BW etc

I was pleased to see the reports in yesterdays Times pointing to a consensus
draft on BW at CCD.

If the report was correct, may I have a copy of the draft text?

Are there any aspects of the draftsmanship on which you would particularly care
to have a comment from me? If so, please just point.

At the urging of my friend and colleague, Sid Drell, I recently joined the JASON
group which, as you may know, is loosely affiliated with the Institute od Defense
Analyses -- but is in fact a rather free-wheeling and self-directed source of construc-
tive, technical critécism of DOD activities. I am assured that it affords an unusually
effective channel of communication to the higher echelons of DOD; and there are of
course a number of important issues of overlapping relevance to ACD concerns.

One problem that I have been mulling over, in the light of the predictable emergence
of the under-water (hence intrinsically remote) systems of deterrence and defence, is
the reliability of civilian command and control in crisis situations. I have in mind
other aspects: besides technical accidents. This is not the place or medium in which
to elaborate -~- but I wonder if you know the names of people, within ACDA or not,
who may have thought the most about such questions, or may have formal responsibilitiee

in this sphere.

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The whole area of ACD and defense policy is one in which there is a great deal of
literature, through which it is not easy to trace a productive, well-guided path. It

is particularly importaht, I think to be able to collect the critiques, elaborations

and other comments that may have been elicited by various specific proposals. This is
especially difficult with existing methods.

In biology, I have long been interested in a similar problem, and had a paternal in-
terest (and, I am bound to say, more recently some financial investment too) in the
SCIENCE CITATION INDEX, which does this job very nicely now with quarterly issues, and
yearly and quinquennial cumulations. I would like to urge a comparable effort in the
ACD field-- and again, may I just ask your advice on whom I should contact on such a

question.

Best wishes,

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