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Antone Brooks grew up close enough to Nevada Test Site nuclear detonations to see the sky light up, feel the shockwaves, and be exposed to radioactive fallout. His long scientific career--from early days trekking into the Uinta Mountains to hunt contaminated deer for tissue samples, to thousands of hours devoted to careful microscope work on chromosomal aberrations in animal studies--has been an increasingly sophisticated search for answers to questions these fallout exposures raised. How dangerous were they Could they produce cancer How afraid of low dose radiation should people be Dr. Brooks served as Chief Scientist for the U.S. Department of Energys (DOEs) new Low Dose Radiation Research Program from 1999 to 2008. During that decade, the group redefined the field.