How Baby Teeth Stopped Atomic Bomb Tests: The St. Louis Baby Tooth Survey, 1958-1970
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How Baby Teeth Stopped Atomic Bomb Tests: The St. Louis Baby Tooth Survey, 1958-1970 Online
Historian Luke Ritter tells the remarkable story of a group of citizens and scientists in St. Louis who collected over 320,000 baby teeth to measure the uptake of nuclear fallout in children during the era of above-ground nuclear weapons tests. The possibility of contaminated milk supplies activated thousands of mothers around the St. Louis area.
Dr. Luke Ritter is Assistant Professor at St. Louis Community College - Forest Park. He is the author of "Mothers Against the Bomb: The Baby Tooth Survey and the Nuclear Test Ban Movement in St. Louis, 1954-1969," which appeared in the Missouri Historical Review in 2018. He recently appeared in a documentary titled Silent Fallout (2025).
- Date:
- Tuesday, September 16, 2025
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- 1:30pm - 2:30pm
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- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
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- Online
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