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Nu-Klear Fallout Detector (ca. 1962-1968)
You've got to love the Nu-Klear (aka NuKlear) Fallout Detector, "a life saving device for the detection of radiation from fallout." The body of the detector is a hermetically sealed clear plastic container (2.5" high and 3.75" diameter at the base). Inside is a clear central cylinder that contains about 40 small red plastic beads.
It seems likely, but is not certain, that Leo Hoegh, one-time Governor of Iowa and Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (OCDM), was the first to manufacture the NuKlear Fallout Detector - from 1962 until 1967 or so. ”My advertising guy wanted to do some test marketing and chose ads in the Fresno Bee[Nov. 12, 1967] and a Sacramento Newspaper [probably means the San Francisco Examiner Nov. 12, 1967]. Failla’s wife, Pat, told me how her husband dragged her from one toy store to another buying baby rattles so he could find the best beads for his cocktail.
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