The radioactive boy scout : the frightening true story of a whiz kid and his homemade nuclear reactor /
Ken Silverstein.
- Villard Books trade pbk. ed.
- New York : Villard, 2005, c2004.
- xvii, 209 p. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: New York : Random House, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-209).
Traces a boy's fascination with science and nuclear physics, which compelled him to misrepresent himself to the government and build a reactor in his back yard, causing an environmental catastrophe in his quiet Detroit town.