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 ...

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 ...

The Lone Ranger Atomic Bomb Ring was mine! I ran home from the post office and into the darkness of my closet. I pulled the red base off and peered into lens. What a disappointment! I’d seen ten times ...