While there is no question but that such findings can be related to definite radiation sickness or acute exposures of 50 roentgens or ‘more, the absence of clinical complaints or illness in these indi- viduals (Japanese) prior to our arrival or at the time seen (12 days after reported exposure) and the calculated mximim dose received, makes any relation to radiation insult untenable in this instance, The blood smear results as reported by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology must then be regarded as incidental findings indicating further medical investigation by Japanese doctors, perhaps, but on the basis of an etiology other than ionizing radiation insult as a result of this present exposure, DOE ARCVES 38 COMPBENTJAL uc