[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, MISSILES: PCBs and cancer at Malmstrom Air Force Base (MT) launch facilities

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Carcinogens found at Montana nuclear missile sites as reports of hundreds of cancers surface

BY TARA COPP
Associated Press
August 9, 2023

WASHINGTON — The Air Force has detected unsafe levels of a likely carcinogen at underground launch control centers at a Montana nuclear missile base where a striking number of men and women have reported cancer diagnoses.

A new cleanup effort has been ordered.

The discovery “is the first from an extensive sampling of active U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile bases to address specific cancer concerns raised by missile community members,” Air Force Global Strike Command said in a release Monday. In those samples, two launch facilities at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana showed PCB levels higher than the thresholds recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency.


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For the entire article, see
https://apnews.com/article/missile-bases-cancer-air-force-malmstrom-military-1999fad70393f0d141676b7faa587eda

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Lenny Siegel
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