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title: "How Did Scientists Who Stole 1500 Bodies Win a Nobel Prize?"
description: "How a classified Cold War program called Project Sunshine secretly collected bones from over 1,500 dead children worldwide to study nuclear fallout—while its lead scientist won a Nobel Prize."
url: https://decodingtheunknown.pub/article/project-sunshine-radiation-experiments-nobel-prize.md
canonical: https://decodingtheunknown.pub/article/project-sunshine-radiation-experiments-nobel-prize
datePublished: 2026-06-28
dateModified: 2026-06-28
author:
  - name: Simon Whistler
    url: https://decodingtheunknown.pub/author/simon-whistler
publisher: Decoding the Unknown
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summaryUrl: https://decodingtheunknown.pub/article/project-sunshine-radiation-experiments-nobel-prize.md.summary.md
---

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How a classified Cold War program called Project Sunshine secretly collected bones from over 1,500 dead children worldwide to study nuclear fallout—while its lead scientist won a Nobel Prize.
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