A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/48/38 28 February 1994 Forty-eighth session Agenda item 83 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) (A/48/644)] 48/38. Effects of atomic radiation The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 913 (X) of 3 December 1955, by which it established the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, and its subsequent resolutions on the subject, including resolution 47/66 of 14 December 1992, in which, inter alia, it requested the Scientific Committee to continue its work, Taking note with appreciation of the report of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, 1/ Reaffirming the desirability of the Scientific Committee continuing its work, Concerned about the potentially harmful effects on present and future generations resulting from the levels of radiation to which man is exposed, Conscious of the continued need to examine and compile information about atomic and ionizing radiation and to analyse its effects on man and the environment, ___________ 1/ A/48/46. /...