Apparently it flopped because it didn’t explode like the chemistry kits did, so kids thought it was boring.
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Hey, as a kid I spent a LOT of time trying to make something explode with chemistry sets. Very disapointing.
Alpha is the weakest, usually stopping on the skin or other thin layer. Gamma goes right through a person. In college, we were warned more about beta emission because beta could enter the body by couldn’t leave in the same way that gamma could.
the hollowpoint particle.
That’s rad
FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY
Ok Kix, why did a cowboy have an atom bomb toy? What was the tie-in? Did Tonto help Oppenheimer? Was this just a way to sell a few tons of used polonium?
The just post WWII times were a weird hybrid of nostalgia for the old west “cowboys and Indians” stories and the space/atomic age becoming en vogue. Toys like this that tried to appeal to both are the result.
Fallout aesthetics
Also you can just think of it as Albuquerque themed
Promotion of war propaganda into the culture? “Mom, why am I growing a 6th finger?”
Thats literally what they are still doing: getting rid of the nuclear waste by passing it to the younger generations.
It’s totally fine, the ring is probably also made of lead.
More lead than at first; polonium-210 decays to lead. With a half life of 138 days, and 1947 being over 28,000 days ago, most of the original material is gone.
There are no claims, even not from child which ingest it. Only statistical issues.
If this is really what MAGA was about, I’d get on board.
