KEN SILVERSTEIN is an investigative reporter for the Washington, D.C., bureau of the Los Angeles Times. A former contributing editor to Harper’s Magazine, in which a portion of this story first appeared, he has written for Mother Jones, The Nation, and The American Prospect, among others. He lives in Washington, D.C.
“Anyone who has ever wondered what the neighborhood geek might be
brewing up in his backyard should read The Radioactive Boy Scout.
This is a riveting and disturbing story about the power of the
teenage mind—and the sparks that fly when a nuclear family melts
down.”
—David Kushner, author of Masters of Doom
“Amazing . . . unsettling . . . should come with a warning: Don’t
buy [this book] for any obsessive kids in the family. It might give
them ideas.”
–Rocky Mountain News
“An astounding story . . . [Silverstein] has a novelist’s eye for
meaningful detail and a historian’s touch for context.”
–The San Diego Union-Tribune
“Alarming . . . The story fascinates from start to finish.”
–Outside
“Enthralling . . . [It] has the quirky pleasures of a Don DeLillo
novel or an Errol Morris documentary. . . . An engaging portrait of
a person whose life on America’s fringe also says something about
mainstream America.”
–Minneapolis Star Tribune
“[Silverstein] does a fabulous job of letting David [Hahn’s]
surrealistic story tell itself. . . . But what’s truly amazing is
how far Hahn actually got in the construction of his crude nuclear
reactor.”
–The Columbus Dispatch
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