Attachment 9

Letter from J. Terrill, Jr., Acting Chief, Radiological Health Branch, 
Division of Engineering Resources, to C. Kidd, Chief, Research 
Planning Branch, National Institutes of Helth, dated September 25, 
1952.



    





  COMMITTEE

BOARD - Research and Development Board - Dept. of Defense
        Committee on Medical Sciences
        Panel on Medical Aspects of Atomic Warfare     




       Mr. Charles V. Kidd            September 25, 1952
       Chief, Research Planning Branch       
       National Institutes of Health
       Acting Chief, Radiological Health Branch

       Panel on Medical Aspects of Atomic Warfare, Committee on 
Medical Sciences, Research and Development Board, Department of 
Defense

       At the September 8-12 meeting of the Panel at Los Alamos, 
several subjects were discussed that are of general interest to the 
Public Health Service as a whole and particularly to the National 
Institutes of Health.

       After the Panel had reviewed the animal work which has been 
done in the laboratory and at atomic field tests, there was a general 
feeling that the question of human exposure under controlled 
conditions should be reconsidered.  The head for such studies was 
emphasized by military as well as scientific considerations.  After a 
brief discussion, it was reported that Dr. Shields Warren, former 
Chief of the Division of Biology and Medicine of Atomic Energy 
Commission, had indicated that he believed studies of this type should 
be conducted by the Public Health Service or some other Agency where 
security restrictions would not lead to public misunderstanding.

       The Panel agreed that the Executive Secretary should undertake 
sufficient staff work to form a basis for specific planning at the 
National Institutes of Health.  Therefore, they wish to obtain a 
listing of intra-service and reserch grant projects in the atomic 
energy field.

       I think if we can obtain a list of the research projects 
currently administered by the several Bureaus, together with a list of 
any proposals for human explsure studies that may have been 
disapproved, we will be rendering a rel service to the Defense 
Department.

       If you consider it desirable, you might arrange for a meeting 
of the Group to Consider Radiobiological Activities in the Public 
Health Service to review this 






material before we pass it on to the Executive Secretary of the Panel 
on Medical Aspects of Atomic Warfare.




                            James G. Terrill, Jr.
             Acting Chief, Radiological Health Branch    Division of 
Engineering Resources,
                   

cc:  Dr. Leonard A. Schoele
     Dr. Otis Anderson
     Dr. Howard Andrews
     Dr. Jack Masur

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