Effects of Ionizing Radiation

This issue of the Journal contains two special articles relating to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, the organization that is responsible, under the auspices of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the Japanese National Institute of Health, for the study of atomic injuries in Japan. The Commission, an outgrowth of the Joint Commission established at Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the war with Japan, is concerned with a continuing study of the health and genetics of the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki exposed to atomic-bomb irradiation in 1945. From the start these studies have been Cooperative, . . .