The Declassified Documents of Project Sunshine

Project Sunshine was led by a University of Chicago scientist and senior Atomic Energy Commission official who had since passed away. Scientists gathered data on the babies to determine how much fallout humans could bear, and that the experiment was quote-unquote, also useful in deciding what the health effects were of the nuclear weapons test being conducted at the time. The declassified documents stated that researchers used babies because they provided the best measure of the amount of radiation in the body rather than from other sources like ingesting irradiated food.