September 2023

In the fall of 1945 Eastman Kodak began receiving complaints of damaged industrial X-ray film. It appeared speckled, as if it had measles. A little detective work suggested radioactive debris from the Trinity detonation in south-central New Mexico in July had traveled far from its point of origin. An Indiana papermill manufacturing strawboard, used in […]

Few Cold War research projects so vividly highlight the permeability of the body as Project Sunshine–a clandestine effort to procure bodies and body parts for analysis amid open-air atomic testing in Nevada and the South Pacific. It began at a meeting of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) officials and affiliated scientists at the RAND Corporation in