FUN WITH SCIENCE... and The Most Dangerous Toy Ever

If you were a child in The Fifties, your hand shot up like a Soviet Union R-7 ICBM rocket. You know, the fiery beast that in 1957 launched not only Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the Earth, but also launched the fears of a nation.

So a little uranium among friends? Sure, why not?

Back then, amidst the chill of the Cold War, science mattered. Today? Not so much. In