by Jeff McMahon

LAS VEGAS—Retired high-school science teacher Don Curry visits a radiation monitoring station on Flamingo Road in Las Vegas a few times a week, records data and collects air filters that may contain radioactive isotopes trapped on the wind.

He does this, in part, so citizens don’t have to take the government’s word on radiation exposure.

“You know the history of this?” Curry asked me Monday as we stood at his station outside the Atomic Testing Museum. “We don’t trust the government. That’s what’s going on.”

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