High incidence of cancer causes panic! The US nuclear bomb base has confirmed the base | nuclear missiles | panic
According to the Associated Press on August 7th in Washington, the Air Force has discovered an unsafe level of a substance that is likely to cause cancer at an underground launch control center at a nuclear missile base in Montana, USA. An astonishing number of men and women in the area have reported being diagnosed with cancer. The order to clean up the substance again has been issued.
According to the report, the US Air Force Global Strike Command stated in a press release on the 7th that this discovery is "the first large-scale sampling of active US intercontinental ballistic missile bases to address cancer concerns raised by members of the missile community.". In the collected samples, two launch sites at the Mamstrom Air Force Base in Montana showed levels of polychlorinated biphenyls higher than the upper limit recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Polychlorinated biphenyls are substances like oil or wax, which have been confirmed by the Environmental Protection Agency to be highly carcinogenic and may lead to non Hodgkin's lymphoma. This is a type of blood cancer that uses the human lymphatic system to fight against infection and spread.
In response, General Thomas Bichier, Commander of the Air Force Global Strike Command, instructed "immediate measures to clean up affected facilities and reduce exposure of Air Force soldiers and guards to potentially hazardous environments.".
A military briefing obtained by the Associated Press in January this year showed that at least 9 active or pre missile soldiers in Mamstrom were diagnosed with non Hodgkin's lymphoma, a rare form of blood cancer. The Air Force Aerospace Medical College later launched research to examine the cancer situation of the entire missile unit and explore the possibility of this disease spreading in large numbers.
The latest data obtained from a grassroots organization composed of former missile launch officers and their surviving family members suggests that hundreds of people may still suffer from various types of cancer.
The Torchlight program, which focuses on the risk of cancer among missile soldiers, states that in the past few decades, at least 268 soldiers who have served at nuclear missile bases or their surviving family members have claimed to have been diagnosed with cancer, blood diseases, or other illnesses. At least 217 of these reported cases are cancer, of which at least 33 are non Hodgkin's lymphoma.
The report states that the numbers for these reports are noteworthy as the missile soldier community is very small. Every year, only a few hundred Air Force soldiers serve as missile soldiers at each Minuteman-3 intercontinental ballistic missile base. There are three bases in the United States that use missile wells.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States states that, as a comparison, 403 new cancer cases are reported per 100000 people per year in the general population of the United States. The American Cancer Society estimates that non Hodgkin's lymphoma affects only 19 out of every 100000 people annually.
