Context: The promotion was real — for 15 cents and a Kix cereal box top, one could receive a ring containing polonium-210, the same deadly radioactive material used decades late ...

Sometime during 1947, when we were 8-years-old, the Lone Ranger program took on a new significance. Immediately after the Long Ranger and Tonto galloped off the sound waves, the announcer came on with ...

When he was just a 10-year-old Birmingham kid, Jim Auker got a coveted Atomic Bomb Ring for the bargain price of 15 cents and a cereal box top. He eventually lost his toy promoted on the Lone ...

When you’re done finding ways to make your kids glow in the dark, check out these nuke-powered transports, nuke-powered clocks and nuke-powered retro bomb shelters. 1947 Lone Ranger Atomic Bomb Ring ...