§ 112. Sir W. Wakefieldasked the Minister of Health, as representing the Lord President of the Council, in view of the progress in the United States of America with research into the possibility of production of a drug to counteract poisoning or death by radiation in the event of a nuclear war or accident, what advance has been made in the United Kingdom in this direction.
§ Mr. Walker-SmithThe Medical Research Council has for some ten years actively supported work on substances that might protect against the effect of ionising radiations. Substantial progress has been made experimentally but the results are not yet applicable to the treatment of human beings.