VA Secretary Collins: Please review this short TV news piece. “Cold War era Military Nuclear Weapons Technicians want recognition of radiation, toxic chemical...”. youtube.com/watch?v=CW5bf5c_… Thank you for your military and gov’t service. - With respect @kilmeade @gregkellyusa @FoxNews

2/2 Follow-up newscast: Veteran optimistic radiation exposure to nuclear weapons technicians will finally be... youtube.com/watch?v=yHGZoYoH… Please forward to spread the word of our need for support.

1/2 TV newscasts and request for your help: Cold War era Military Nuclear Weapons Technicians want recognition of radiation, toxic chemical... youtube.com/watch?v=CW5bf5c_… Please contact your two U.S. Senators and your Representative in the House. Urge each of them to contact U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (NV) and Congressman Jack Bergman (MI) with their strong support for the draft proposed bills their DC staffs have been working on with us since approx. April 2024.

Break The Silence - Please Honor our Veterans, thank their surviving family members (they also served/sacrificed)

The images are from a May 1, 2025 DOD post in "X" and my May 2 reply. Cold War-era (1947-1991) Nuclear Weapons Technicians (NWTs) in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps worked in secrecy while maintaining all live nuclear weapons in custody of the DOD throughout the world. Without our knowledge and consent, we were bombarded by ionizing radiation (gamma and neutron) continuously emitted through the live nuclear weapon surfaces. Routine tasks included maintenance, disassembly, limited life component exchange, reassembly, transport, storage, etc. The radiation had no on/off switch. Many NWTs removed radioactive alpha particles from radioactive materials in the weapons, unseen by the human eye. When airborne, those unseen particles could be inhaled, and ingested. They could easily and unknowingly be carried home to family members or to the barracks in their hair, on uniforms, etc. Alpha radiation is 20 times more biologically dangerous than gamma radiation. Neutron is 5-20 times more. Title 38 U.S. Code nor the VA consider as radiation exposed veterans. The law, in Title 38 U.S. Code "Veterans' Benefits" must be amended to acknowledge and provide presumptions of occupational radiation exposure. Until then, veteran NWTs continue to fight an uphill battle, typically a losing cause, required to individually prove their actual exposures and prove the connection to cancers and other diseases as likely as not caused by the radiation. on their own. That is near impossible, as Cold War-era NWTs have not been formally and completely released from the secrecy requirements and agreements from their time of Service to our nation, many of whom are (technically) unable to speak of their duties with physicians, family members, or friends. Many have, and more continue to, take those secrets to the grave.