Nuclear missile workers are contracting cancer

They blame the basesBy Patricia Kime, KFF Health News/North Dakota Monitor At a memorial service in 2022, veteran Air Force Capt. Monte Watts bumped into a fellow former Minuteman III nuclear missile operator, who told him that she had non-Hodgkin lymphoma.Watts knew other missileers with similar cancers. But the connection really hit home later that same January day, when the res...

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