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 later to kill former Russian ...

In 1947, Kix cereal ran a promotion for an "Atomic Bomb Ring" that contained radioactive polonium-210, one of the deadliest radioactive substances known to man. The promotion was real — for 15 ...

It is similar to Kix but is flavored with vanilla and strawberry corn crisp — red and white like the D.C. flag. “As a kid, growing up, my parents worked late and they worked hard so cereal was ...

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 later to kill former ...