"downwinder"
Dave Timothy lost his innocence early. He grew up on a farm in Utah, downwind from the Nevada Test Site. "One day I was out cutting hay, and there was this bluish gray haze in the air. The sweat on my arms and face felt like stinging nettles, and I had to take a rag and keep wiping off, because it burned so bad. By the time I was 18, I had thyroid cancer." His neck scarred from a series of operations, he's lucky to have survived the past 35 years. Fallout from tests has been, or will be, responsible for 17,000 cancer deaths in the US
