3. The U.S. government used dead body parts of infants and children for radioactive testing without permission.
In the 1950s, the United States Atomic Energy Commission started testing tissue samples from recently deceased children and babies in order to test radioactive strontium-90, the most severe threat to humans in the event of a nuclear fallout.
Throughout “Project Sunshine,” they collected more than 1,500 samples throughout Europe and Australia—often without the parents’ knowledge or consent—to test the horrible effects on young human tissue.
Years later, a British woman named Jean Prichard said that she hadn’t been allowed to dress her stillborn daughter’s body for the funeral back in 1975, because her baby’s legs had been removed by British doctors and shipped to the U.S. government. “No one asked me about doing things like that, taking bits and pieces from her,” she said.
