He would ask about their superhero idols and then paint their radiation masks to look like Spiderman, or maybe a Minion or something tied to their favorite sport. One teenager, he told me ...

Advertisement Kuklev, who worked for the Goskomgidromet, the unpronounceable Soviet state meteorological service, said he and his colleagues were given radiation suits and gas masks, but they ...

And at a frightening time. So Jennifer Cook, a radiation therapist at Greenville Health System’s Cancer Institute, decided that the masks could at least be made to look like something fun.