Lone Ranger Atom Bomb Ring

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Lone Ranger Atom Bomb Ring

https://orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/spinthariscopes/lone-ranger-atom-bomb-ring-spinthariscope.html

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In 1947, General Mills offered the Lone Ranger Atom Bomb Ring as a mail-in premium for Kix cereal. The promotional toy included a functioning spinthariscope that allowed users to observe radioactive scintillation flashes inside a small viewing chamber. Such consumer items reflect historical public engagement with low-level radiation sources prior to modern regulatory oversight.

This ring spinthariscope was known as the Lone Ranger Atom Bomb Ring and advertised as a "seething scientific creation." The Lone Ranger was more closely associated with silver bullets than atomic bombs but that's what it was called. When the red base (which served as a "secret message compartment") was taken off, and after a suitable period of...

Distributed by Kix Cereals (15 cents plus a boxtop), the instructions stated: "You'll see brilliant flashes of light in the inky darkness inside the atom chamber. These frenzied vivid flashes are caused by the released energy of atoms. PERFECTLY SAFE—We guarantee you can wear the KIX Atomic "Bomb" Ring with complete safety. The atomic materials inside the ring are harmless."

Read the full article at Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity:
https://orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/spinthariscopes/lone-ranger-atom-bomb-ring-spinthariscope.html

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