Project Sunshine: That time the U.S. Gov stole dead babies

The Conspiracy Everyone Called Impossible - Until the Files Opened

For forty years the rumor persisted in hospital corridors and anti-nuclear circles: pathologists were quite literally stealing whole, and parts of, dead babies for secret government tests without informing the babies parents or anyone for that matter. At the time, same as now to be honest, the claims were wrote off as a crazy conspiracy theory.

Journalists, being journalists, waived off all the claims and reports and simply called it hysteria. But then, in 1995, the U.S. Department of Energy was forced to tell the truth for once, and what was revealed proved the truth was so much worse than the rumors had ever been.

1945: The Poison Enters the Food Chain

When Trinity detonated, July 16, 1945, in New Mexico, no one involved seemingly knew Strontium-90 even existed as a fallout product. By 1949 Soviet tests and escalating U.S. programs were pumping enourmous amounts of it into the planets stratosphere.

Then the rain brought it down onto pastures. The cows in the pastures ate that grass. Mothers drank that milk, and their fetuses and infants pulled Strontium-90 straight into their rapidly growing skeletons. Some scientists, to their horror, realized children had become living Geiger counters.

To other scientists it was an oppertunity...

Why Strontium-90 Is So Evil

Chemically almost identical to calcium → bones treat it as food. Half-life 28.8 years. Once incorporated, it bathes bone marrow in beta radiation for decades. Known effects:

• Leukemia (especially acute lymphatic leukemia in children)
• Bone cancer (osteosarcoma)
• Immune suppression
• Genetic mutations passed to offspring

Some studies have strongly suggested as little as 1 gram (1 GRAM!) of this stuff uniformly distributed across Earth would cause widespread cancer. Since 1945 approximately 2,056 to 2,060 nuclear weapons have been detonated. The bombs released hundreds of kilograms of Strontium-90 into the atmosphere. And they detonated the majority of them AFTER they knew the devestating effects of Strontium-90.

1953: Project Sunshine Is Born

RAND Corporation meeting, January 6, 1953. Dr. Willard Libby (future Nobel laureate) tells colleagues the AEC has almost no human data on global fallout. Solution: collect “samples” from recently deceased persons, especially babies and children under five. Whether done on purpose or not the code name, of all the names they could have used for the sinster sh*t they would be doing, was: Project Sunshine.

The Global Network

Offices in:

• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Argonne National Laboratory (Chicago)
• Oak Ridge
• Hanford Site
• UK Atomic Energy Authority (Harwell)
• Australian Atomic Energy Commission

Agents for the project carried credentials identifying them as “health physicists” or “medical researchers.” Many hospitals were simply told the tissue was for “cancer studies.”

How a Harvest Worked

Typical procedure (from declassified manuals):

1. Identify stillborn or infant death
2. Contact pathologist (often already on retainer)
3. Remove both femurs, vertebrae, ribs, sometimes entire torso
4. Ash the bones in furnace to isolate Strontium-90
5. Ship ashes in lead-lined containers
6. Return body to funeral director, often with wooden dowels or newspaper stuffing

Documented Cases That Surfaced

1955 – London: Parcel containing nine babies’ legs arrives at Harwell

1955 – Houston: Mother told her stillborn son needed “routine autopsy”; both legs missing when casket opened

1956 – Sydney: Mortician reports “bodies coming back light” – discovers broom handles inside

1957 – Chicago: 18-month-old cancer patient dies; hospital keeps entire skeleton “for research”

The Infamous 1955 Quote

“Human samples are of prime importance, and if anybody knows how to do a good job of body snatching they will really be serving their country.
— Dr. Willard F. Libby, recorded transcript, 1955 Sunshine conference

Scale of the Theft

Official 1995 count: 1,504 bodies processed
Unofficial estimates: 6,000–9,000 samples
Countries involved: USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Norway, Belgium, South America

How Bad Was the Contamination?

Baby Tooth Survey (1958–1970, St. Louis):

• 320,000 donated deciduous teeth analyzed
• Children born 1963 had 50 times more Strontium-90 than pre-1945
• Peak year 1964: some teeth showed 300 times the natural background
• Every single human alive in 1965 carried measurable Strontium-90 in their bones

The Cover-Up Begins to Crack

1980s: UK journalist uncovers shipping manifests at Public Record Office
1993: Albuquerque Tribune reporter Eileen Welsome tracks plutonium injection victims → opens floodgates
1994: Energy Secretary Hazel O’Leary declassifies 30,000 pages
January 1995: Clinton orders full disclosure
October 1995: Advisory Committee confirms everything

Parents Find Out Decades Later

Jean Prichard (UK, 1995) was quoted as saying: “They told me my baby needed tests for cot death. I opened the coffin in 1995 and found wooden sticks where her legs should have been.”. Jesus Christ...

Timeline

Sources

1. ACHRE Final Report (1995) – 900+ pages
2. Eileen Welsome, The Plutonium Files (1999)
3. DOE OpenNet Project Sunshine collection
4. UK National Archives AB 16/4854
5. Baby Tooth Survey archives
6. Australian Radiation Protection records

Final Verdict

THE MOST MORALLY ROTTEN CONFIRMED CONSPIRACY IN AMERICAN HISTORY. They didn’t just drop bombs, they effectively poisoned the planet, then stole the bones of dead children to measure exactly how badly they had done it. The people who whispered “they’re taking our babies” were not paranoid, hysterical, conspiracy theorists. They were right. And the United States government had the balls to call it Project Sunshine.