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prob-lem. (This will enable a saving in both procurement and adminis-trative areas.)
The materiel problem is essen-tially the replacement of obsolescent and obsolete residential (and, to
a very small extent, industrial), build-ings in a controlled economical method.
Some of the major problems to be expected are: labor union regu-lations; local construction
ordi-nances; lack of specialized tools/techniques.
All these essentially add to the time required to perform the task, adding to the cost. The current
patchwork method also makes it extremely difficult to perform long-range, large-scale planning for slum
clearance and urban renewal.
The personnel problem is closely tied into this with older buildings (which provide too many defense
positions) making effective law en-forcement difficult. The unplanned city growth (especially in the use of
narrow and short streets) hampers effective control of urban distur-bances and riots.
The obvious solution to all these problems is the selective use of low-yield tactical nuclear devices as
the major components of a modern, ef-fective slum clearance and riot con-trol program. It is expected
that suf-ficient devices can be transferred from the Department of Defense, at cost, in the initial stages of
the pro-gram. Further downstream, alternate sources for the devices can be sought on a competitive bid
basis, thereby decreasing costs.
The program could be run by the Department directly or as a contrac-tor to the states.
I estimate the first year's program should run about $4,700,000 and in-volve forty man-years of
technical and support staff.

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING
AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
ROBERT F. KENNEDY
RESEARCH CENTER

FROM: Chief, Improvements Branch
TO: Gordon Rogers
DATE: 19 March 1984
SUBJECT: Your Memo of 13 March 1984

Are you serious? You are propos-ing that we go into these areas and essentially eliminate them and
their inhabitants without any warning. What you are proposing is adminis-trative murderтАФthese are living
hu-man beings. Perhaps you meant the whole thing as a joke; but, if so, it is in very bad taste. Regardless
of how much money could be saved I don't think anyone in this Department (or any other) would justify
using the methods you proposed. If you have any sane suggestions in line with my memo of 7 March, I
would like to see them.
A copy of this memo is being placed in your permanent personnel file.

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING
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ROBERT F. KENNEDY
RESEARCH CENTER
FROM: Gordon Rogers
TO: Chief, Improvements Branch