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TOXIC SECRETS Fluoride & the A-Bomb Program

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During the ultra-secret Manhattan Project, a report
was commissioned to assess the effect of fluoride on
humans.
That report was classified "secret" for reasons of
"national security".
Some 50 years after United States authorities began adding fluoride to public water
supplies to reduce cavities in children's teeth, recently discovered declassified government
documents are shedding new light on the roots of that still-controversial public health
measure, revealing a surprising connection between the use of fluoride and the dawning of
the nuclear age.
Today, two-thirds of US public drinking water is fluoridated. Many municipalities still resist
the practice, disbelieving the government's assurances of safety.
Since the days of World War II when the US prevailed by building the world's first atomic
bomb, the nation's public health leaders have maintained that low doses of fluoride are safe
for people and good for children's teeth.
That safety verdict should now be re-examined in the light of hundreds of once-secret WWII
era documents obtained by these reporters [authors Griffiths and Bryson], including
declassified papers of the Manhattan Project-the ultra-secret US military program that
produced the atomic bomb.
Fluoride was the key chemical in atomic bomb production, according to the documents.
Massive quantities-millions of tons-were essential for the manufacture of bomb-grade
uranium and plutonium for nuclear weapons throughout the Cold War. One of the most toxic
chemicals known, fluoride emerged as the leading chemical health hazard of the US atomic
bomb program, both for workers and for nearby communities, the documents reveal.
Other revelations include:
l Much of the original proof that fluoride is safe for humans in low doses was generated
by A-bomb program scientists who had been secretly ordered to provide "evidence
useful in litigation" against defence contractors for fluoride injury to citizens. The first
lawsuits against the American A-bomb program were not over radiation, but over
fluoride damage, the documents show.
l Human studies were required. Bomb program researchers played a leading role in
the design and implementation of the most extensive US study of the health effects of
fluoridating public drinking water, conducted in Newburgh, New York, from 1945 to
1955. Then, in a classified operation code-named "Program F", they secretly
gathered and analysed blood and tissue samples from Newburgh citizens with the
cooperation of New York State Health Department personnel.
l The original, secret version (obtained by these reporters) of a study published by
Program F scientists in the August 1948 Journal of the American Dental Association1
shows that evidence of adverse health effects from fluoride was censored by the US
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)-considered the most powerful of Cold War
agencies-for reasons of "national security".
l The bomb program's fluoride safety studies were conducted at the University of
Rochester-site of one of the most notorious human radiation experiments of the Cold War, in which unsuspecting hospital patients were injected with toxic doses of
radioactive plutonium. The fluoride studies were conducted with the same ethical
mindset, in which "national security" was paramount.