FLUORIDE, TEETH and 
the ATOMIC BOMB

Some fifty years after the United States began adding fluoride to public water supplies to reduce cavities in children’s teeth, declassified government documents are shedding new light on the roots of that still controversial public health measure, revealing a surprising connection between fluoride and the dawning of the nuclear age.

Today, two thirds of U.S. 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 this nation prevailed by building the world’s first atomic bomb, U.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 documents obtained by Griffiths and Bryson – including declassified papers of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. military group that built the atomic bomb.

Fluoride was the key chemical in atomic bomb production, according to the documents. Massive quantities of fluoride--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 rapidly emerged as the leading chemical health hazard of the U.S. atomic bomb program—both for workers and for nearby communities, the documents reveal.
Other revelations include:

• 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 defense contractors for fluoride injury to citizens. The first lawsuits against the U.S. A-bomb program were not over radiation, but over fluoride damage, the documents show.
• Human studies were required. Bomb program researchers played a leading role in the design and implementation of the most extensive U.S. study of the health effects of fluoridating public drinking water—conducted in Newburgh, New York from 1945 to 1956. Then, in a classified operation code-named “Program F,” they secretly gathered and analyzed blood and tissue samples from Newburgh citizens, with the cooperation of State Health Department personnel.
• The original secret version – obtained by these reporters – of a 1948 study published by Program F scientists in the Journal of the American Dental Association shows that evidence of the adverse health effects from fluoride was censored by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) – considered the most powerful of Cold War agencies—for reasons of national security.
• The bomb program’s fluoride safety studies were conducted at the University 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 mind-set, in which “national security” was paramount.
• The U.S. government’s conflict of interest—and its motive to prove fluoride safe – has not until now been made clear to the general public in the furious debate over water fluoridation since the 1950’s, nor to civilian researchers and health professionals, or journalists.

The declassified documents resonate with growing body of scientific evidence, and a chorus of questions, about the health effects of fluoride in the environment.

Human exposure to fluoride has mushroomed since World War II, due not only to fluoridated water and toothpaste, but to environmental pollution by major industries from aluminum to pesticides: fluoride is a critical industrial chemical.
The impact can be seen, literally, in the smiles of our children. Large numbers of U.S. young people--up to 80 percent in some cities—now have dental fluorosis, the first visible sign of excessive fluoride exposure, according to the U.S. National Research Council. (The signs are whitish flecks or spots, particularly on the front teeth, or dark spots or stripes in more severe cases.)

Less Known to the public is that fluoride also accumulates in bones—“The teeth are windows to What’s happening in the bones,” explains Paul Connett, Professor of Chemistry at St. Lawrence University (N.Y.). In recent years, pediatric bone specialists have expressed alarm about an increase in stress fractures among U.S. young people. Connett and other scientists are concerned that fluoride—linked to bone damage by studies since the 1930’s—may be a contributing factor.....

This is but a small...actually a tiny amount of information concerning the deadly consequences of fluoridation. The above excerpt is from an article written by Joel Griffiths and Chris Bryson and found in the October 2000 issue of The American Voice newspaper as well as in the book "Fluoride, Teeth & The Atomic Bomb."

The materials show beyond any reasonable doubt that fluoride contributes to, if not causes, cancer, bone deterioration, lowered IQ and more. It also shows that any and all unfavorable information concerning fluoride has been suppressed, withheld and covered-up by the government.

"But why does the American Dental Association (ADA) support fluoridation?" you may ask. Do you know that dentists who practice in fluoridated areas make more money than dentists that do not?

"But why does the American Medical Association (AMA) not oppose fluoridation?" Cancer treatment is the single biggest money-maker the medical/pharmaceutical establishment has going and fluoride is a carcinogen. Without sick people doctors can't make their Mercedes payments.

If you think this does not affect you because you do not live in an area that the water is being fluoridated in, think again! Much of the food you and your children eat is processed in fluoridated water.

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