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00:00 [MUSIC]

00:05 >> The people in the US sadly have no idea most of them.

00:10 [MUSIC]

00:14 >> In 1951, nuclear testing finally began on the US mainland.

00:21 >> Everybody, all Americans and really all people around the world.

00:26 [MUSIC]

00:29 >> 100 mushroom clouds pierced the sky.

00:33 >> Fallout went completely around the world and came down in rain and snow.

00:39 >> Severe radioactive contamination followed.

00:43 >> The United States government kept the earliest nuclear fallout studies top secret.

00:50 >> The American public, whether they want to be or not,

00:53 will be forever linked to the nuclear tests that occurred in the 1950s.

00:59 >> This is because the tests produced clouds that

01:04 went everywhere across the United States.

01:08 [MUSIC]

01:14 >> And nobody warned us, we never got a warning, never got any warning.

01:18 [MUSIC]

01:22 >> So the bombs that got us were the bombs of our own governments.

01:26 It was a nuclear war.

01:28 [MUSIC]

01:36 >> I used to keep, it was a big pile, it got so big I gave up.

01:41 It was too depressing.

01:43 >> All of those men that were at the herd that spring,

01:47 all eight of them have died with some form of cancer.

01:50 >> So and then I had a couple classmates in grade school that got sick, that died.

01:57 [MUSIC]

01:58 But I will still keep fighting to my last breath until they are acknowledged for

02:05 what they did and what they were exposed to.

02:10 >> I think I have this enormous responsibility to do this work.

02:17 >> The hardest part for me is to believe my own government

02:22 [MUSIC]

02:25 Killed my family.

02:27 [MUSIC]

02:33 >> It was the women who stood up.

02:36 [MUSIC]

02:38 >> People were wondering how much strontium-90 is getting into infants diets.

02:43 >> The only way to stop radioactive contamination was to prove that

02:48 children were being exposed to radiation.

02:52 >> So initially in 1959, they asked for

02:56 baby teeth from within a 150 mile radius of the city of St. Louis.

03:02 >> I just don't think that's, I was telling friends about it who are 20,

03:08 20 years younger than I am and they were like, really?

03:12 That happened?

03:13 >> I believe it was 1959 and I was seven years old and went to school and

03:19 the teacher said there is this project that's going on and

03:23 they're requesting the children that have their baby teeth fall out.

03:29 >> I only remember putting, there was like a box,

03:32 like a mailbox on the wall in the classroom.

03:35 >> In my mind, the teeth went to the tooth fairy and

03:40 she did with them whatever she did.

03:42 >> My mom would always send them in.

03:44 >> And I can remember vividly the card that she filled out.

03:48 She was concerned about, we kept hearing Strontium-90.

03:52 >> Well, my parents would have mailed it.

03:53 >> Most mothers do.

03:55 It was almost always the moms.

03:57 >> Yeah, it would have been my mom.

04:00 >> It's unique and cute.

04:02 So anytime I open up that cabinet, I see it and it makes me smile.

04:06 >> So this is the original card and

04:08 the original button from the project that I was sent in 1959.

04:13 >> She has leukemia, take her home and prepare for her to die.

04:18 It was baby teeth that proved children's radiation exposure.

04:23 >> There had been a 30-fold increase in Strontium-90 uptake in children.

04:32 November 1st, approximately 50,000 American women

04:38 who described themselves as housewives and

04:41 mothers went on strike in 60 cities around the country.

04:47 And that was the article that was sent to President Kennedy's science advisor.

04:52 >> And I answered the phone and there was this pause.

04:57 He said, this is John Kennedy, can I talk to your mom?

05:02 >> President John F.

05:05 Kennedy declared a halt to atmospheric nuclear tests.

05:09 However.

05:12 >> It came from nuclear testing, but it didn't come primarily from Nevada.

05:16 So that is a misconception.

05:19 [MUSIC]

05:29 [BLANK_AUDIO]

05:39 (whooshing)

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