Atomic Bomb Dr. Bugher oriented the Committee on the recent activities Casualty Commission of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. He said that the program was receiving more international attention than had been the case in the past. In Geneva, at the International Conference on Peacetime Uses of Atomic Energy it was mentioned by various people, particularly in regard to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission genetics studiese The Chairman inquired, "what has happened to the plan for a medical reactor program for Japan"? Dr. Bugher replied that he had asked the Rockefeller Foundation in Japan to make astudy of medical education from the standpoint of possibilities of increasing support for the medical school at Hiroshima. The Foundation came to the conclusion that the support to medical schools should be in Tokyo where the two outstanding schools are located. enthusiasm Alse, the Japanese Science Council expressed over building up the Hiroshima Medical College~~of building a center for medical education and research and of amalgamating various facilities of the school with facilities of tne ABCC. Dr. Bugher explained further that another factor in this rather complicated picture is the interest by the Episcopal Church in possibly making a gift of a reactor to Saint Lukes Hospital in Japan. Dr. Failla propounded the questions of "How does the medicai profession feel about this situation in Japan? Are they in favor of having the reactor at Hiroshima or Tokyo?" A report on the subject matter will be made at a later date. Radiological Thesis = Dr. Hardin Jones, of the Donner Laboratory, University of California presented a thesis on the radiation probiem as it may affect populations. He maintains that the aging process in humans may be accelerated generally in proportion to the disease incidence experienced ake