From: | Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:41:20 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VETERANS: "Cancer rate among Air Force missileers prompts questions, concerns" |
Cancer rate among Air Force missileers prompts questions, concerns Service members who worked at nuclear weapons facilities seek answers. By Nathan Luna, Luis Martinez, Matt Seyler, Bobby Gehlen, and Ivan Pereira ABC News March 26, 2024 It is a little-known mission within the United States Air Force that operates almost entirely underground, shrouded in secrecy – and is critical to national security. Those tasked with the job are known as missileers. Their work requires them to be on alert 24/7, and they are responsible for the maintenance, security and operation of the United States’ arsenal of Minuteman III nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles. Their mission is one component of the U.S. nuclear "triad," which includes land, air and sea-based nuclear weapons. … For the entire article, see https://abcnews.go.com/Health/cancer-rate-air-force-missileers-prompts-questions-concerns/story?id=108283672 — Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight A project of the Pacific Studies Center LSiegel@cpeo.org P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918 http://www.cpeo.org Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org) _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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