The Electric Typewriter

Selected features, articles and essays from the world's best journalists and writers.
15th Feb

The Radioactive Boy Scout

By Ken Silverstein

…the truth is far more bizarre: the Golf Manor Superfund cleanup was provoked by the boy next door, David Hahn, who attempted to build a nuclear breeder reactor in his mother’s potting shed as part of a Boy Scout merit-badge project.

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