Lynne Mctaggart
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 Robert Goddard, the father of American rocket science, and just a few miles across the mountains from the first testings of the atomic bomb. Science and spirituality coexisted in him, jockeying for position, but he yearned for them to somehow shake hands and make peace.
There was something else he'd kept from them. Later that evening, as Alan and Stu slept in their hammocks, Ed silently pulled out what had been an ongoing experiment during the whole of his journey to and from the moon. |
Devra Davis
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 With that can-do confidence peculiar to Americans, the president echoed the view that the same ingenuity that put a man on the moon and crafted the atomic bomb would wipe cancer from the earth within the decade.
One of the only researchers to go on record as opposing the notion of a war on cancer was Philip Randolph Lee, a physician who would become assistant secretary for health under President Carter. |
| A single computerized scan of the stomach today can give half the dose that was shown to induce cancer in those who survived the atomic bomb blasts in Japan. The ACR advises that "the current annual collective dose estimate from medical exposure in the United States has been calculated as roughly equivalent to the total worldwide collective dose generated by the nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl."20
Let me translate this. |
Mark Lynas
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 In just ten minutes of burning at the peak of that firestorm, more energy was released than by the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Enormous fire-driven thunderstorm clouds -termed pyro-cumulonimbus - built up over the flames due to the intense convection and heat. No rain fell, but black hail pounded the ground 30 kilometres to the east. An F2-strength tornado touched down just to the west of the city's fringe. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 After America's victory in World War II, which was won in part by the invention of such technologies as radar, sonar, and, of course, the atomic bomb, all of science assumed a symbolic as well as practical role in helping shape America's destiny as leader of the free world. Supporting scientific research became a responsibility of government, while American technological know-how—along with the destruction of Europe's economies during World War II—allowed American factories to produce more than half the world's goods, and 80 percent of its automobiles. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Ironically, that study used the atomic bomb Casualty Commission Leukemia Registry to track down cases and determine the occupations of the individuals involved. The risk of the disease among those with jobs likely to involve benzene exposure was double that of those who did not have such jobs. In the end, the experts would conclude only that a relationship between benzene exposure and leukemia was suggested by the scientific data at hand, not conclusively established.
In the years that followed, new epidemiological studies linking benzene to leukemia continued to appear. By 1978, the U.S. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 In their petition, the Solae Company dismisses this study as irrelevant because it was carried out in cities where women were exposed to high levels of ionizing radiation after the atomic bomb,42 but the fact that women consuming high levels of soy protein did not enjoy special protection is very significant.
Meanwhile, Dutch researchers from the University Medical Center in Utrecht reported on 15,555 women aged 49 to 70 years who were studied from 1993-1997. The news was not good for the soy industry. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That is going to require a public health effort, a medical science effort, equal to the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb.
Mike: Wow.
Fitzgerald: There are other suggestions I would make. For one, I believe we need a naturally occurring standard for products. Especially for foods and medicines, and for vitamins and mineral supplements. It would be a standard, much like the organic standard, but going far more deeply into the problem. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 They were defeated not by technology, but by science expressed as the atomic bomb, and power, as in the monstrous increase in energy employed by the /jnericans.27
There is a third point. The Japanese were cut off from the world for the most important period in the history of science. Within the limitations of their lives, their technology was very efficient and appeared to answer problems. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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| Commercial production of fluorine began after World War II, prompted by the requirements of the atomic bomb. The U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry lists fluoride as among the top 20 of 275 substances that pose the most significant threat to human health.13
Yet fluoride is promoted as a healthy mineral needed to prevent cavities. The evidence for this is mixed, at best, with mounting evidence that fluoride actually causes a condition known as fluorosis, an unsightly mottling or discoloring of the teeth. |
| Shinichiro Akizuki noticed that healers who treated atomic bomb victims at St. Francis Hospital in Nagasaki suffered few ill effects from residual radiation if they ate miso and seaweed. Agricultural research scientist Morishita Kenichiro later discovered that miso and natto contain dipicolinic acid, an alkaloid capable of grabbing onto radioactive strontium so that it can be ushered safely out of the body. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 He knew that atomic bomb workers had experienced a dramatic decrease in cavity incidence—because exposure to high levels of fluoride had caused their teeth to fall out. Fewer teeth, fewer cavities! This handy statistical method would be used again and again, when later studies "demonstrated" that fluoride reduced cavities in children less than six years old. They too had fewer teeth, but this fact is never mentioned in published study results.
The final conclusions of the Newburgh study were published in the Journal of the American Dental Association in 1956. |
| The story begins during World War II in 1943 with the Manhattan Project and the creation of the atomic bomb, one of the most secret projects in our nations' history. The manufacture of high-grade uranium for nuclear bombs required huge amounts of fluoride—millions of tons of it in fact—and many parts of the project were farmed out to America's manufacturing firms, such as the industry giant DuPont. Handling such enormous quantities of fluoride proved to be a monumental task, chiefly because of the escape of the fluoride into the atmosphere.
In the early 1940s, the E.I. |
Tanya Harter Pierce
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 Our more than 50-year history of water fluoridation started with the atomic bomb industry during World War II. Developing atomic bombs required the processing of uranium. And the processing of uranium produced toxic fluoride waste. Initial problems of fluoride waste were evident early on when New Jersey chemical industries producing bomb-grade uranium allowed fluoride waste to escape into the air. This event resulted in severe damage to fruit trees and animal life downwind of the factories. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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| Now let us backtrack for a bit to a very interesting part of the fluoridation story, one which illustrates well how the dovetailing interests of industry profit and government protectionism collude to suppress truth and destroy public trust.
The atomic bomb and Fluoridation of Water
This astounding report is the result of the intrepid efforts of two medical journalists, Joel Griffiths and Chris Bryson, who have labored against all the forces of government secrecy to provide us with this critically important investigation. |
Bruce H. Lipton
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 Humanity's wake-up call to the reality of a quantum universe occurred on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima that day demonstrated the awesome power of applied quantum theory and dramatically ushered in the Atomic Age. On a more constructive note, quantum physics made possible the electronic miracles that are the foundation of the Information Age. The application of quantum mechanics was directly responsible for the development of TVs, computers, CAT scans, lasers, rocket ships and cell phones. |
Gary Zukav
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 The formula E = mc2 also resulted in the atomic bomb. Atomic bombs and atomic reactors obtain energy from mass by the process of fission, which is the opposite of fusion. Instead of fusing smaller atoms into larger ones, the process of fission splits atoms of uranium, which are quite large, into atoms which are smaller.
This is done by firing a subatomic particle, a neutron, at an atom of uranium. When the neutron hits the uranium atom, it splits it into lighter atoms, but the mass of these smaller atoms together is less than the mass of the parent atom of uranium. |
David Bodanis
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 Although the man who first discovered this result, Werner von Heisenberg, was a pretty unsavory character-he ended up heading the Nazi attempt to build an atomic bomb for Hitler and the master race-the argument he used has been unable to be faulted, and after some initial resistance is now accepted by all scientists as a basic part of nuclear physics. |
volker schulz and Rudolf Hansel
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 Like all other flora and fauna in the city, the ginkgo tree originally there was incinerated when the atomic bomb was dropped on august 6,1945. The new plant showed all the usual traits of its species and grew into a normal, full-size tree.
Extreme hardiness seems to be a characteristic of ginkgo trees, which have lived on earth for approximately 300 million years. They are as resistant to harmful insects and microorganisms as they are to the environmental toxins of modern civilization. |
Susun S. Weed
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 For comparison, women who survived the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima or Nagasaki absorbed 35 rads. Though one large dose of radiation can be more harmful than many small doses, it is important to remember that damage from radiation is cumulative. Many women born in the 1930s and '40s—who are now considering the benefits of postmenopausal mammographic screening-have already absorbed quite a bit of radioactivity into their breast tissues from fallout from the atomic bomb tests of the 1950s. (See page 18. |
Alexander Hellemans and Brian Bunch
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 The harnessing of nuclear energy and the construction of the atomic bomb is probably the most important scientific and technical result of the scientific effort during the war.
Because of fear that Nazi Germany might develop an atomic bomb—later proven unfounded—Leo Szilard persuaded Albert Einstein to write a letter to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in which Einstein suggested that the fission of uranium could be used to produce an atomic explosion. This letter resulted in the establishment of the largest single enterprise in the history of science. |
Healing Children's Attention & Behavior DisordersDr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C)
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| Another might see it as a violent explosion, perhaps the atomic bomb, and react with fear and horror. Or a person who had always seen the setting sun with interest might one day misperceive it as the explosion of a bomb.
There are two main aspects to thinking: the process of constructing ideas which when made evident by a flow of words are intelligible to the listener; and the content of that process. There is seldom a clear distinction between these two aspects of thinking. If the first process is disturbed, it is called thought disorder but should be called a thought "process" disorder. |
| She was working hard as a housewife and was way behind in her work, her husband made little money, the world situation was precarious (in i960 she was worried about the atomic bomb). How could anyone not be depressed? She was then re-hypnotized and told that this time she would be very happy in the post trance state. When she was out of her trance, she was classically hypo-manic and cheerful. When asked why, she said that she had a good husband, felt great, the sun was shining. Why would anyone not be happy? |
Tanya Harter Pierce
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| National Cancer Institute did finally admit in 1997 that the fallout from atomic bomb tests carried out in the 1950s blanketed this country with much higher levels of radioactive material than was previously admitted by the government.16 But the government report only went so far as to include the statement that ". . . there could be between 10,000 and 75,000 cases of thyroid cancer among those exposed."17
Research done by many concerned downwinders indicates that the problem is much, much bigger than the NCI is willing to admit. |
| For instance, in April 1953, just two days after an atomic bomb test had been conducted in the Nevada desert, a professor and his students in Troy, New York, discovered that the gamma radiation measurements on their campus suddenly shot up to 500 times the normal amount. And they found that the beta ray radiation was even higher than that in some hot spots, such as in rainspouts and puddles. |
| This location was about 150 miles downwind from atomic bomb testing sites. For three months, crew members and stars including John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moore-head, and producer Dick Powell breathed in dust that was laced with radioactive fallout. Of the total 220 people involved with that film's production, 91 had contracted cancer by 1980 and half of them died of the disease. Those who died of cancer included John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, and Dick Powell. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
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| More than 100,000 Japanese living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki survived the atomic bomb blasts over those cities. The most heavily irradiated survivors have shown increases in both leukemia and solid tumors (including cancers of the thyroid gland, breast, and gastrointestinal organs) as long as two to three decades after exposure. The Radiation Effects Research Foundation, set up to study these survivors, has estimated that 1 percent of deaths among bomb survivors between 1950 and 1984 was due to the carcinogenic effects of atomic bomb radiation (see p. 582). |
Tanya Harter Pierce
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| On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb test was successfully carried out at Alamogordo, New Mexico. Back then, scientists knew very little about the dangers of radiation. They had the technology to create the bomb, but did not have all the technology needed to study the dangers of radioactive isotopes. Only gamma ray and X-ray radiation were understood. The more dangerous radioactive contamination issues from nuclear testing, such as beta radiation and neutrons, were a mystery. There was no technology or device that could measure some of these new radioactive particles. |
James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch
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 On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a populated area. Followed by the bombing of Nagasaki, on August 9, this show of Allied strength hastened the surrender of Japan in World War ii. ?*> Many survivors of these bombings have suffered from a variety of diseases caused by radiation, Such as leukemia.
Ho Chi Minh City (hoh chee min) Present name of Saigon, Vietnam, named for the revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh.
Holland A part of The Netherlands. Holland is a common name for the entire country.
Holy Land See Palestine. |
| Oppenheimer led the research and development of the atomic bomb, and was head of the Manhattan Project. fa In the early 1950s, Oppenheimer's opposition to building the hydrogen bomb and his past association with leftists led to a hearing regarding his security clearance. Although the committee found that he was a "loyal citizen," his security clearance was not restored, and he was barred from government research. Oppenheimer's chief opponent in the scientific community at this time was Edward Teller. optics The branch of physics dealing with light. |
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