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This Is What They Meant By Making America Great Again? (lemmy.ml)

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Kix cereal once offered 'Atomic Bomb Ring' with radioactive material as a promotion?

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[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

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?

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago

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.