The History of Uranium Glass — The Tableware Made of Nuclear Fuel

In the 1930s, thousands of American families served Sunday dinner on glowing green glass, entirely unaware they were eating off the raw material for an atomic bomb. Decades before it became the most feared and heavily regulated substance on Earth, the key ingredient for nuclear weapons was routinely pressed into cheap teacups and fruit bowls. So how did a radioactive metal meant to shatter cities end up as a cheerful decoration on the family dinner table?