ABSTRACT
Shortly after the Chernobyl accident on 26 April 1986 various newspapers reported that the local population of Kiev, a city of 2.5 million inhabitants some 120 kilometres distant from the Chernobyl nuclear power station, were taking a radiation exposure antidote. This was apparently a mixture of Kiev vodka and strong red wine. The only logical reason for such a theory was presumably that after an adequate dose the patient would be incapable of worrying about nuclear fallout, civil or military!
