Description of the Chronic Radiation Syndrome in Humans Irradiated in the Former Soviet Union

Abstract

The purpose of this letter is to call attention to the availability of a technical report on the chronic radiation syndrome (CRS) which may be obtained from the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI). Pursuant to facilitating communications between radiation scientists in the United States and the former Soviet Union, AFRRI and the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA) have provided small amounts of funding for scientists in the former Soviet Union to conduct pilot experiments or to pursue critical archiving documentation and/or analysis of existing data. The overarching goal was to augment the process whereby important newly available data or ideas could be communicated outside the former Soviet Union for evalua-