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Introduction: The following article was commissioned by the Christian Science Monitor in the spring of 1997. Despite much favorable comment from editors, and full documentation, the story remains unpublished by the Monitor. By any yardstick, this report was an award-winning scoop for any national paper. The report offers a glimpse into the history of fluoride, […]

In their award winning article, “Fluoride, Teeth, and the Atomic Bomb” journalists Chris Bryson and Joel Griffiths discussed how “the first lawsuits against the U.S. A-bomb program were not over radiation, but over fluoride damage.” The lawsuits were filed by a group of farmers in southern New Jersey, whose peach orchards were destroyed, and whose […]

Chapter 13: “The Rochester Production Line” On September 5, 1945, just three days after Japan formally surrendered, Los Alamos chemist Wright Langham sat down with scientists working at the Manhattan Annex, the secret research facility at the University of Rochester to plan the most comprehensive set of plutonium injections yet undertaken. This new round of […]