The Edge of
EpidemiologyBy Devin Teichrow

Historical Epidemiology

Project SUNSHINE’s Supply of Human Bones

How Project SUNSHINE built a supply of human bones to measure radioactive fallout, and what its correspondence reveals about the people and institutions behind the samples.

By Devin Teichrow · September 5, 2026

Project SUNSHINE Bulletin No. 11, issued by the University of Chicago’s Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies on December 1, 1955. The archival copy bears later markings confirming its declassification. Source: U.S. Department of Energy archives, F. C. Libby collection, via the RMI Nuclear Justice Documents database.

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