N-activist's career began with a light in the sky

Truman keeps the fight going from Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, where he answers several hundred e-mails every day, many from activists in the former Soviet Union.

Why keep fighting a fight he seemingly won?

The U.S. government still hasn't passed a test-ban treaty, he notes ruefully. And there is scientific information coming to light showing that Utah and Nevada were not the only places blanketed by deadly radiation, but that people in Idaho and Montana were equally as hard hit.

And then there are the victims in other countries. In all, more than 160 million people are believed to have been exposed to much higher than normal levels of radiation from nuclear testing.

"We keep burying the dead," he said. "We still need to do something about the victims of it all."

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