Your Government Harvested Dead Baby Bones

<p>A grieving mother wasn't allowed to dress her own dead baby—because the government had already taken the child's legs. She was just one of thousands.</p><p><br /></p><p>For decades the U.S. government ran a classified program to collect dead babies and children from hospitals and morgues on multiple continents, to measure nuclear fallout in their bones. It was called Project Sunshine.</p><p><br /></p><p>I dig through the actual declassified 1953 RAND report and the declassified 1955 transcript where a Nobel Prize winner asks a room full of scientists to go body-snatching for their country.</p><p><br /></p><p>I follow the trail from Castle Bravo, into the room where they plotted, and out to the mothers in Britain, Scotland, and Australia who got jars of ash, decades too late.</p><p><br /></p><p>Topics covered (among others):</p><ul><li>The Men Who Did the Math: why the founding blueprint targeted children by design before anyone ever said "body snatching."</li></ul><p><br /></p><ul><li>The Channels: Houston's "poverty cases," the cover stories, and the man who priced a dead child by the sample.</li></ul><p><br /></p><ul><li>The Mothers and the Ash: the human cost, the file that's still "not declassifiable," and the treaty that this whole nightmare helped create.</li></ul><p><br /></p><p>🔥 CONSIDER SUPPORTING + RECEIVE BONUS CONTENT</p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/theswervepodcast" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/theswervepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p><br /></p><p>➡️ ALL PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODES</p><p>🗄️ 📁 The File Room:</p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/collection/1706258" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">⁠https://www.patreon.com/collection/1706258⁠</a></p><p>🔓 🎬 The Producer Vault:</p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/collection/289029" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">⁠https://www.patreon.com/collection/289029⁠</a></p><p>⏲️🙉 Early Access + Ad-Free:</p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/collection/710796" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">⁠https://www.patreon.com/collection/710796⁠</a></p><p><br /></p><p>👽 ALL LINKS</p><p><a href="https://beacons.ai/theswervepodcast" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://beacons.ai/theswervepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p><br /></p><p>⏰ TIMESTAMPS:</p><p>(0:00) Intro</p><p>(0:52) Welcome/Pre-Amble</p><p>(3:18) I. THE MEN WHO DID THE MATH</p><p>(4:40) Nuclear Fallout and the Castle Bravo Disaster</p><p>(12: