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Strontium-90 in St. Louis: 50000 Baby Teeth
Wyant Jr., William K. | June 13, 1959 issue

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Ordinarily, a group that called itself the Greater St. Louis Citizens Committee for Nuclear Information (CNI) would not be expected to last for any great period of time. Yet the committee now is striding vigorously into its second year. It has turned out to be an unusually happy union of scientific knowledge and civic leadership. At the outset, CNI decided it would not be an action group that is to say, it would take no position for or against testing of nuclear weapons, even though the sentiment of the organizing spirits was clearly and outspokenly against. The committee's drive to collect 50,000 baby teeth, to be analyzed for strontium-90, got headlines throughout the world press.

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NUCLEAR weapons; SCIENTIFIC knowledge; NUCLEAR weapons -- Testing; STRONTIUM; LEADERSHIP; KNOWLEDGE, Sociology of
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