Carcinogens Found at Montana Nuclear Missile Sites as Reports of Hundreds of Cancers Surface

Airman 1st Class Jackson Ligon (L) and Senior Airman Jonathan Marinaccio, 341st Missile Maintenance Squadron technicians connect a re-entry system to a spacer on an intercontinental ballistic missile during a Simulated Electronic Launch-Minuteman test at a launch facility near Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Mont., on Sept. 22, 2020. Senior Airman Daniel Brosam/U.S. Air Force via AP

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.