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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 an assistant professor at St. Louis Community College. 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).
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