Veterans and their families in Europe and the U.S. are seeking compensation for cancer suffered by radar technicians who worked with Nike and Hawk missile batteries during the Cold War.
A story published in Mother Jones Magazine in 2004, relates how some Cold War Nike veterans believe that exposure to radioactive elements in the radar systems they worked on have caused cancer.
These veterans have hired the Philadelphia-based law firm Berger & Montague to pursue their case.
The details here.
I was in the military from 1/77 thru 11/79 my ait was in huntsville al. RSA were they were a testing site for NASA I was exposed to hawk and vulcan FAAR radar where the techs always observed precautions not to stand around radar when it was emmitting microwave transmission because of the danger of exposure. 25 years later i have all the systoms of colon lympha diabets etc... and the va tells me that i'am not in that presumptive group although i have all the diseases and symtoms
Posted by: Anthony Bell | August 24, 2009 at 07:46 PM