A child's toy that included uranium!

[dueda]

No. Commonly found materials can only do radiation harm. One needs highly refined stuff and machinery, plus doctors in engineering/phisics/math, to make a boom.
Doing it without setting the authorities' alarm would be a miracle. Anyway, that would required millions if not billions, and people so rich won't normally waste on it when they can fill pools with the rarest bubbly or buy their pets some 1000-carat collars.

[contrail]

This set must have been the set that every kid wanted, looks like they have a bunch of kids with small arsenals of uranium now.

[soulcity]

No. Commonly found materials can only do radiation harm. One needs highly refined stuff and machinery, plus doctors in engineering/phisics/math, to make a boom.

Don't be a kill joy 

[LZA]

Out of curiosity, I looked it up and see that it was sold from 1951-52, at $50.00 which equates to approx $497.00 at the time. I was going to say it was for spoiled rich brats since it would cost more than a PS4...

[dueda]

This set must have been the set that every kid wanted, looks like they have a bunch of kids with small arsenals of uranium now.

And most of them have weird haircuts...

No. Commonly found materials can only do radiation harm. One needs highly refined stuff and machinery, plus doctors in engineering/phisics/math, to make a boom.

Don't be a kill joy 

I'm a boner-killer, but for your comfort, it IS possible to acquire the materials from a working facility, research plant, or arsenal.
To make a boom is another story, as one needs to operate the devices inside; surviving it is 0.0000000000000001% probable...

Out of curiosity, I looked it up and see that it was sold from 1951-52, at $50.00 which equates to approx $497.00 at the time. I was going to say it was for spoiled rich brats since it would cost more than a PS4...

I would say it's even more than 5 Benja's, as inflation in simple financial spreadsheets usually doesn't match real world, working man perception.
But, as contrail said, we've a lot of spoiled little "ungrown-up kids"* playing with nukes nowadays.
* I'm restraining myself here, but picture many other adjectives in your mind.

[soulcity]

Don't be a kill joy 

I'm a boner-killer, but for your comfort, it IS possible to acquire the materials from a working facility, research plant, or arsenal.
To make a boom is another story, as one needs to operate the devices inside; surviving it is 0.0000000000000001% probable...

I'm a simple person with simple desires : 

1. I like my axe because it chops things in half. 
   
2.  I like my car because it goes real fast.
   
3. I like uranium because it makes big radioactive fallout. 
   

If you have the secret to a DYI nuclear reactor please share it!  Oh and if you know how I could turn into the Hulk please share that too. 

Out of curiosity, I looked it up and see that it was sold from 1951-52, at $50.00 which equates to approx $497.00 at the time. I was going to say it was for spoiled rich brats since it would cost more than a PS4...

There is always the price that the factory says it's worth and then there's the price that it's sold in the stores. I've no doubt that this was one of the more expensive lab kits in its day but I"m also willing to bet that it sold for a fair less than $50.

[LZA]

There is always the price that the factory says it's worth and then there's the price that it's sold in the stores. I've no doubt that this was one of the more expensive lab kits in its day but I"m also willing to bet that it sold for a fair less than $50.

That's a good point. Also, I'm applying today's circumstances to yesteryear when I say, spoiled rich kids. But back in the 50's wasn't the top exec increase to regular employee back then 20-1, whereas now it's like 270-1? Good thing they stopped selling it because I was born 20 years later, and probably would have found a way to blow up my house...

[dueda]

I like uranium because it makes big radioactive fallout. 
If you have the secret to a DYI nuclear reactor please share it!  Oh and if you know how I could turn into the Hulk please share that too. 

No secret, plenty of books freely available. College students did the project (in theory) so much, professors don't take the Bomb Thesis anymore.

If you want fallout: Instead of building a bomb, acquire cobalt, make it a very thin dust, add some radium/thorium/etc, spread from an airplane. No boom but kills everything for the next six centuries if left unchecked - your own Fukushima! Target areas with water, wind, or animal migration, preferably birds. Cereal farms are primary food targets and also full of mice, they're great vectors too.

Before doing so, get a copy of "Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse" by Brad Pitt & Gordon Freeman, Ph.D.
Btw, maybe you'll feel more comfortable in the "armchair-terrorists-forum.org" - Tixati has a section for those things.

But back in the 50's wasn't the top exec increase to regular employee back then 20-1, whereas now it's like 270-1?

In God We trust - Authorities and richies we submit to...

[soulcity]

That's a good point. Also, I'm applying today's circumstances to yesteryear when I say, spoiled rich kids. But back in the 50's wasn't the top exec increase to regular employee back then 20-1, whereas now it's like 270-1? Good thing they stopped selling it because I was born 20 years later, and probably would have found a way to blow up my house...

I would love to have been alive in the 1950s because of things like : 

* I could "supe" up an old jalopy and go street drag racing
* Go to drive in movies and watch old 50s scifi 
* Quit school at 15 and still get a good job
* See Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Billy Haley in concert
* Watch some of the best cartoons every made
* Be able to buy guns without exhaustive paperwork
* Have a HUGE station wagon
* Buy a great house in the suburbs and be able to afford it on a single salary

Plus be able to buy lab kits with uranium !

[politux]

I would love to have been alive in the 1950s because of things like : 

* leaded gasoline
* lead paint in houses
* asbestos