Fluoride and 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."
Joel Griffiths and Chris Bryson
Northern Truth Seeker
Joel Griffiths and Chris Bryson
Northern Truth Seeker
"At approximately 8.15 am on 6 August 1945 a US B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, instantly killing around 80,000 people. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, causing the deaths of 40,000 more. The dropping of the bombs, which occurred by executive order of US President Harry Truman, remains the only nuclear attack in history. In the months following the attack, roughly 100,000 more people died slow, horrendous deaths as a result of radiation poisoning."
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" SUBJECT: Investigation of Crop Damage at Lower Penns Neck, New Jersey
TO: The Commanding General, Army Services Forces, Pentagon Building, Washington D.C.
At the request of the Secretary of War the Department of Agriculture has agreed to cooperate in investigating complaints of crop damage attributed... to fumes from a plant operated in connection with The Manhattan Project
Signed L.R. Groves, Major General U.S.A."
Memo in the fluoride deception, written by Christopher Bryson
"Manhattan Project scientists were planning to use a "gaseous diffusion" technology to refine uranium. In that process uranium is mixed with elemental fluorine, forming a volatile gas called uranium hexafluoride which is then enriched by diffusing that gas through a fine barrier, or membrane. The lighter molecules containing fissionable uranium needed for a nuclear explosion pass through the membrane more quickly and are captured on the other side. But because only a handful of the lighter molecules make it through the membrane each time, many tons of hundreds of fluoride would be needed to produce enough uranium for a single bomb.
The Fluoride Deception, written by Christopher Bryson
"Environmental damage around atomic bomb plants was often widespread. At Oak Ridge, officials planned, in 1945 to dump 500 pounds of fluorides each day into the nearby Poplar Creek;a decade later, airborne fluoride emissions had scarred a 50-square-mile area of wounded and dying trees, officials and posed a clear threat to grazing animals."
Christopher Bryson, author of The Fluoride Deception
"The bomb-program scientists could now fight fire with fire. Fluoride, bonded to carbon atoms in fluorocarbons, would protect the machinery from the uranium in the hexafluoride gas. In other words, fluoride would protect the machinery from fluoride's uniquely corrosive powers."
The Fluoride Deception, written by Christopher Bryson
"Getting more information about fluoride's toxicity was vital. Despite the many uncertainties facing the Manhattan Project that bleak winter of 1943, General Groves was sure of one thing: fluoride was going to be essential in making the United States' atomic bomb."
The Fluoride Deception, written by Christopher Bryson
The first lawsuits about the atomic bomb were not over radiation, but over fluoride damage done to civilians. The government did many tests and studies on how fluoride in large doses would affect humans. This operation was given the nickname "Program F". One of the tests included the most extensive study on fluoridation. The study included information how fluoride affected humans in low and high doses.