PART VI BIOLOGY AND MEDTCINE (UNCLASSIFIED ) 1. is The Commission's biology and medicine research program focused primarily upon sensitivity of varlous sickness in man. studies organisms, of the nature and of radiation particularly on radiation The specifle aims of this rescarch are: (1) to adopt and continuously to verify permissible levels of radlation, and methods (2) to study the effects of overexposure and to develop of treatment. These aims complement the objectives of the biology and medicine program: means of protecting people from the over-all (1) to develop harmful effects of radiation; (2) to develop new, beneficial uses for radiation in the treatment of disease; and (3) to Investigate possible effects of yvadiation on crop yields and on development of new varieties of plants. 2. Most of this research is conducted in the Commission's laboratories and at private Institutions throughout the nation. Another verify be important source lInboratory results and obtained vealed of research data in the important produce laboratory. facts about the effects tests, which information which cannot The current and vehicles and is also expected to of the medical and psychological new is weapons test series of blast on has re- structures Increase our understanding effects of atomic detonations. (End of UNCLASSIFIED sect.lon.) Weapon Test Activities Fall-Out Data on Operation IVY {SE@REP)}3. The world-wide monitoring network deserlbed in the preceding report has produced a large amount - 58 - of data on fall-out Part VI from