Fluoride's Horrifying Past: Nazis and the Atomic Bomb
Today most look upon fluoride as a necessary, beneficiary, and effective health tool. Most people do not know that fluoride was not always a benefit to the public, but was actually used as a weapon.
The New Jersey Fluoride Pollution Incident
"The documentary trail begins at the height of WW2, in 1944, when a severe pollution incident occurred downwind of the E.I. du Pont du Nemours Company chemical factory in Deepwater, New Jersey. The factory was then producing millions of pounds of fluoride for the Manhattan project, the ultra-secret U.S. military program racing to produce the world's first atomic bomb."
Fluoride Action Network
"There seem to be four distinct (though related) problems:
"1. A question of injury of the peach crop in 1944.
"2. A report of extraordinary fluoride content of vegetables grown in this area.
"3. A report of abnormally high fluoride content in the blood of human individuals residing in this area.
"4. A report raising the question of serious poisoning of horses and cattle in this area."
Stafford Warren
Chief of the Medical Division
"Although not mentioned in any history of the Manattan Project the lawsuits were regarded by the military as the most serious legal threat to the U.S. nuclear program."
The Fluoride Deception, written by Christopher Bryson
"But in the summer of 1943, the farmers began to report that their crops were blighted, and that "something is burning up the peach crops around here." Poultry died after an all-night thunderstorm, they reported. Farm workers who ate the produce they had picked sometimes vomited all night and into the next day. "I remember our horses looked sick and were too stiff to work," these reporters were told by Mildred Giordano, who was a teenager at the time. Some cows were so crippled they could not stand up, and grazed by crawling on their bellies."
Chris Bryson & Joel Griffiths
Fluoride Action Network
"If the farmers won, it would open the doors to further suits, which might impede the bomb program's ability to use fluoride"
Jacqueline Kittrell, a Tennessee public-interest lawyer who specializes in nuclear cases
The most logical and likely explanation was that the fluoride had been carried through the air and affected the farms. After WW II was over, and the bomb had been dropped, farmers tried to sue the Manhattan Project for fluoride damage. It was the first reported lawsuit over the Atomic Bomb.
Donora Death Fog
Shortly after WW II, in 1948, when Donora's steel companies had been helping with the production of many of the elements in the atomic bomb, including fluoride, the temperature starting rapidly changing, fumes began leaking from the companies and blanketing the town.
"I have felt the fog in my throat --
The misty hand of Death caress my face;
I have wrestled with a frightful foe
Who strangled me with wisps of gray fog-lace.
Now in my eyes since I have died.
The bleak, bare hills rise in stupid might
With scars of its slavery imbedded deep;
And the people still live -- still live -- in the poisonous night."
Folklorist Dan G. Hoffman reported collecting the ballad "Death in Donora" from area resident John P. Clark
"I have felt the fog in my throat --
The misty hand of Death caress my face;
I have wrestled with a frightful foe
Who strangled me with wisps of gray fog-lace.
Now in my eyes since I have died.
The bleak, bare hills rise in stupid might
With scars of its slavery imbedded deep;
And the people still live -- still live -- in the poisonous night."
Folklorist Dan G. Hoffman reported collecting the ballad "Death in Donora" from area resident John P. Clark