United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation

UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation correspondence, as well as committee papers, including minutes, agenda, reports and other circulated papers.

Folder 1: Mostly correspondence of the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, as well as related papers, 1956-1957.

Folders 2-3: Includes papers of the Informal Panel of Advisers to UK Representative of the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation as well as reports from UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation sessions and related papers. Also includes reports from the UK Atomic Energy Authority Research Group, including "Radioactive and natural strontium in human bones", UK results for early 1958 (1959); "The Deposition of Fission Products from Distant Nuclear Test Explosions Results to mid-1959" (1959).

1956-1960

1 file (in 3 parts)

Further correspondence and papers relating to the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation can be found in PP/WVM/A/20, file 3 of 3.

The UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation was established following a resolution adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in Dec 1955. The Committee set out to collect and evaluate information on radiation exposure and radiation effects.The first session of the committee convened in March 1956. The Scientific Committee included representatives from USA, Sweden, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, France, India, Japan, Mexico, USSR, Great Britain and Czechoslovakia. Mayneord was the first chairman in 1956 of the UK Delegation to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation.