Alternative national strategies -- Will the survivors envy the dead? -- Neither oblivion nor surrender -- Conflicting objectives -- Stresses and strains -- additional remarks on the military problems -- The role of analysis -- The real past -- The hypothetical past -- Present and future -- Recapitulation -- The problem must be taken seriously -- Improve policy formulation -- Proposal for a war damage equalization corporation -- The social importance of installations -- A proposed civil defense program -- Some questions and answers.