Exhibiting The Most Dangerous Toys Of All Time, This Museum Show Asks Whether Modern Childhood Is Risky Enough

To prepare for futuristic careers in midcentury America, children played with toys of astonishing sophistication. Mattel manufactured the Vac-U-Form, a machine for molding plastics. The Chemcraft Chemical Outfit provided reagents to perform 162 instructive experiments. And the Gilbert U-238 Atomic …