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Despite much favorable comment from editors, and full documentation, the story remains unpublished by the Monitor.

The report offers a glimpse into the history of fluoride, a bio-accumulative toxic that Americans ingest every day.

With the belief that the information should be withheld no longer, the authors gave their report to Waste Not, and others, with a short note: "use as you wish." The science of fluoridating public drinking water systems has been, from day one, shoddy at best. Americans have been convinced that fluoride will save their teeth and we drink more fluoridated water than any other nationality on earth.

But they unknowingly left their imprint on history: their complaints of injury to their health reverberated through the corridors of power in Washington and triggered intensive, secret, More than a million civilians are exposed when army scientists drop light bulbs filled with the bacteria onto ventilation grates.

It would appear that the CIA's drug testing continued throughout the 1970s since, "A CIA memo dated March 8, 1971, indicates that a backlog of more than twenty-six thousand drugs had been acquired 'for future screening'"Officials also said there was no apparent connection between the crashes.

A well balanced diet, both during pregnancy and after delivery, also helps sustain an adequate supply of breastmilk.The article went on to be nominated as the year’s 18th most censored story in the 1998 Project Censored Series. Since the days of World War II, when this nation prevailed by building the world’s first atomic bomb, U. public health leaders have maintained that low doses of fluoride are safe for people, and good for children’s teeth. Fluoride was the key chemical in atomic bomb production, according to the documents.Fluoride, Teeth, and the Atomic Bomb by Chris Bryson & Joel Griffiths 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. 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. 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.The author of the 1944 CNS research proposal attached to the 29 April memo was Dr Harold C.Hodge - at the time, chief of fluoride toxicology studies for the University of Rochester division of the Manhattan Project.Chris Bryson, who holds a Master's degree in journalism, is an independent reporter for BBC Radio, ABC-TV and public television in New York City, and writes for a variety of publications.The authors wish to thank Clifford Honicker, Executive Director of the American Environmental Health Studies Project, Knoxville, TN, for his indispensable archival research.