Cold War-era military Veterans who secretly maintained all of DOD’s nuclear weapons worldwide, exposed to deadly radiation without our knowledge and consent.
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Secretary Collins @SecVetAffairs. Sir, please remember the Cold War period military Nuclear Weapons Technicians (NWTs), exposed to IRAD without informed knowledge or consent. Wendy Bjork @bjork_ms presented four interview questions (for you) to one of your senior staff members. Reportedly, the staff member "respectfully declined" an interview, on your behalf. Please reach out to Wendy to schedule an interview. Your office has her contact information.
Please note: Approximately 30,000 Cold War period veteran NWTs in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force were exposed to intrinsic radiation (gamma and neutron) continuously emitted from the weapons they worked in, on, and in close physical proximity to.
Estimates indicate approx. 17,000 have died. Many took their secrets to their graves. Please help us Break the Silence...
Thank you for your lengthy and continuing service.
Happy Independence Day,
With respect
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INDEPENDENCE DAY 2026
During the Cold War (1945-1991), over 30,000 Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force Nuclear Weapons Technicians (NWTs) maintained our nation’s entire nuclear arsenal — our nuclear deterrent — deployed worldwide on land, ships, and submarines.
NWTs maintained over 65,000 nuclear weapons that included approximately 77 different types of nuclear warheads in 110 configurations. The number of weapons peaked at 31,255 in 1967, reduced to 19,008 by the end of the Cold War period in 1991.
NWTs were responsible for the maintenance, disassembly, component replacement, reassembly, transport, and storage of all live nuclear weapons in the operational and physical custody of the Department of Defense.
While performing their primary duties in secret, NWTs were continuously exposed to dangerous ionizing radiation emitted through weapon surfaces and from exposed components—often without adequate protective measures, modern safety standards, or their full knowledge and informed consent.
Link: Nuclear Weapons Technician Ionizing Radiation Exposure Information v4.1 (24 May 2026) — shorturl.at/LI4VZ
They routinely worked near radiation sources without the protections of today’s “As Low As Reasonably Achievable” (ALARA) programs. Operations generally lacked proper restrictions on time, distance, and shielding.
Link: Nuclear Weapons Technician Ionizing Radiation Exposure Information v4.1 (24 May 2026) — shorturl.at/LI4VZ
Despite overwhelming evidence of these exposures, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has historically denied claims and appeals from these technicians, often citing absent radiation exposure records or relying on questionable estimates from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
Recent questions from Wendy Bjork @bjork_ms to the VA Secretary remain unanswered. She is the daughter of a Cold War Navy veteran who worked with nuclear weapons aboard the USS Independence CVA-62.
Link: “Four Questions Still Await Answers” — dailymailusa.com/2026/06/24/…
This Independence Day, please take a moment to thank a Veteran — and remember their families and the surviving loved ones of those we have lost.
Help protect our remaining Cold War veterans before it is too late. Spread the word in the media. Help us secure invitations to television programs so we can explain our situation.
Please contact your Members of Congress and ask them to become personally involved in The Sound of Silence Project TSOSProject.com. Urge them to support legislation that ensures these veterans finally receive the recognition, health care, and benefits they earned. Specifically, invite your representatives to contact:
- Senator Cortez Masto (NV)
- Representative Bergman (MI)
- Ranking Member Takano (CA)
to offer support for The Sound of Silence Project and the more than 30,000 affected veterans, their families, and surviving family members.
Happy Independence Day!
God bless our veterans, their families, your families, and the United States of America.
#ColdWarVeterans #NuclearWeaponsTechnicians #SoundOfSilenceProject #VeteransDay #SupportOurVets
INDEPENDENCE DAY 2026
During the Cold War (1945-1991), over 30,000 Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force Nuclear Weapons Technicians (NWTs) maintained our nation’s entire nuclear arsenal — our nuclear deterrent — deployed worldwide on land, ships, and submarines.
NWTs maintained over 65,000 nuclear weapons that included approximately 77 different types of nuclear warheads in 110 configurations. The number of weapons peaked at 31,255 in 1967, reduced to 19,008 by the end of the Cold War period in 1991.
NWTs were responsible for the maintenance, disassembly, component replacement, reassembly, transport, and storage of all live nuclear weapons in the operational and physical custody of the Department of Defense.
While performing their primary duties in secret, NWTs were continuously exposed to dangerous ionizing radiation emitted through weapon surfaces and from exposed components—often without adequate protective measures, modern safety standards, or their full knowledge and informed consent.
Link: Nuclear Weapons Technician Ionizing Radiation Exposure Information v4.1 (24 May 2026) — shorturl.at/LI4VZ
They routinely worked near radiation sources without the protections of today’s “As Low As Reasonably Achievable” (ALARA) programs. Operations generally lacked proper restrictions on time, distance, and shielding.
Link: Nuclear Weapons Technician Ionizing Radiation Exposure Information v4.1 (24 May 2026) — shorturl.at/LI4VZ
Despite overwhelming evidence of these exposures, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has historically denied claims and appeals from these technicians, often citing absent radiation exposure records or relying on questionable estimates from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
Recent questions from Wendy Bjork @bjork_ms to the VA Secretary remain unanswered. She is the daughter of a Cold War Navy veteran who worked with nuclear weapons aboard the USS Independence CVA-62.
Link: “Four Questions Still Await Answers” — dailymailusa.com/2026/06/24/…
This Independence Day, please take a moment to thank a Veteran — and remember their families and the surviving loved ones of those we have lost.
Help protect our remaining Cold War veterans before it is too late. Spread the word in the media. Help us secure invitations to television programs so we can explain our situation.
Please contact your Members of Congress and ask them to become personally involved in The Sound of Silence Project TSOSProject.com. Urge them to support legislation that ensures these veterans finally receive the recognition, health care, and benefits they earned. Specifically, invite your representatives to contact:
- Senator Cortez Masto (NV)
- Representative Bergman (MI)
- Ranking Member Takano (CA)
to offer support for The Sound of Silence Project and the more than 30,000 affected veterans, their families, and surviving family members.
Happy Independence Day!
God bless our veterans, their families, your families, and the United States of America.
#ColdWarVeterans #NuclearWeaponsTechnicians #SoundOfSilenceProject #VeteransDay #SupportOurVets
Mr. Greenwood, please review the plight of Cold War Veteran Nuclear Weapons Technicians (NWTs). The very veterans who maintained all nuclear weapons deployed to the DOD throughout the world from 1945 through 1991. I was one of those technicians, beginning four months after I turned 17. We worked in secret, in silence. We were not told that ionizing radiation bombarded us at all times while we worked on those weapons.
NO ONE will acknowledge us, as if we are ghosts. NOT the VA, NOT the DOD. Practically no TV (minus one local TV station and small regional affiliates), no newsprint, and no radio media.
Many veterans "grew up" (I'd been in the service since 1973) with your God Bless the USA song... It became the military's (practically official) theme song. They played it and we sung it at major functions, graduations, retirements, promotions, large and small gatherings. YOU recognized us, recognized ALL veterans. We still need you... we need you now... still.... again.
Mr. Greenwood, please help us Break the Silence.
Please see TSOSProject.com Please contact me. Thank you sir... Hand salute...
Rick Workman, Captain, USAF (retired), Founder, The Sound of Silence Project
--- ANYONE/EVERYONE who sees this, please spread the word... Over 17, 000 of the approx. 30,829 Cold War era NWTs have died. Please help BREAK the SILENCE before so many more are forever lost.
We thank you all.
Thank you for your service. I talk frequently with many other NWs, GMTs, WTs, and veteran nuclear weapons technicians from the Army and AF (hard to find some of the marines who worked with nukes during the Cold War). I invite you to review the information at the link below, that includes info about intrinsic radiation (INRAD): “Ionizing radiation emitted through the weapon surface or directly from exposed weapon components." You certainly were exposed to INRAD while working directly on the weapons.
I wasn't in the Navy (was in the AF), but inspected many boomers, a few fast attack boats, and many ships throughout the world. Interesting, impressive, and eye-opening.
The Sound of Silence Project: TSOSProject.com
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Rick
So... was the house searched... floors walked all over on, BEFORE the floors/tiles were processed for footwear impressions? Crime Scene 101... day one, hour one.
It CANNOT be done thoroughly, properly in that time. NO WAY... !
The entire property should have been marked with crime scene tape, law enforcement staged at appropriate exterior locations to ensure no entry, the house should have been searched for persons (carefully, walking near the wall as closely as possible) then get out.
Then... floors processed for footwear impression evidence (can be done in stages to allow other investigators to do other work as early as possible), then, and only then... begin processing for finger prints and search for other items/information... and a lot more to that.
The scene must NOT have been released at all until all boxes are checked.... and until there is no chance that additional information learned may lead to possible collection of other items within and near the house. Even if "completed"', I'd still keep the crime scene, yard and all, in place for quite some time... definitely would not release it yet... (not today... and likely not for a couple weeks, pending a LOT more knowledge of the facts, circumstances, and potential evidence not known at this time). Under the current circumstances, NO promised/proposed date of release of the crime scene.
I worked, supervised, and managed crime scenes for 22 years, from burglary to kidnap, rape, and multiple murders. In two murder cases I worked, one has been on death row since approx. 1998, another was executed. I managed the scenes and testified in those related trials and many others over the years. Not bragging... just evidence that I'm not an "armchair quarterback".
BAD MOVE...
Also....
Are you aware of any processing of the entryway and house for footwear impressions?
I haven't seen any activities or heard about any processing the tile in the entryway, and the entire house for footwear impressions. Per the International Association for Identification (as of today) there are three AIA Certified Footwear Examiners in AZ: one each in Phoenix, Surprise, and Tempe.
ALL fully trained crime scene analysts should be able to properly process multiple types of floors and objects for and recover footwear impressions to be examined and verified by at least two Certified Footwear Examiners. I also know of two certified examiners in Utah... I hired and supervised one of them for approx. 16 years. I “solved” (at least facilitated the process that led to a formal conclusion/identification) a murder case in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2008, after they contacted me about footwear impression evidence they had.
Several prosecutors from the Netherlands had attended a forensic conference I hosted in Las Vegas, so they reached out to me. I founded a municipal police department Forensic Crime Laboratory and CSI section eight years earlier. I marked up the photos of the impressions in blood, determined, and notified Rotterdam they could be scientifically examined and compared, and that there was significant detail in the impression. I was very familiar with the process and the science but was not and am not a qualified examiner. I asked them to bring the portion of the actual floor tile that the impression was on at the time, to me. A detective and another employee flew to Las Vegas and brought the evidence.
My certified Footwear examiners examined the impression and completed an identification. The Rotterdam Prosecutor’s office completed their own independent examinations and provided their own conclusions.
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- Rick Workman
Cold War-era military Nuclear Weapons Technicians maintained America’s nuclear arsenal in silence — many have died, others struggle with the consequences of radiation and toxic chemical exposure from working on those weapons.
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In a recent episode of the Price of Business Show, host @KevinPriceLive and co-host Wendy Bjork @bjork_ms spoke with Rick Workman, retired U.S. Air Force Captain and founder of The Sound of Silence Project, about the secret work veterans performed for decades to sustain America’s nuclear deterrent.
During the Cold War, tens of thousands of Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps Nuclear Weapons Technicians maintained U.S. nuclear weapons worldwide. Their work was highly classified, conducted in silence, and hidden even from their families. Many were forced to lie. Many took their secrets to the grave.
Live nuclear weapons continuously emitted ionizing radiation through their surfaces. Ionizing radiation damages DNA, causes mutations, disease, and cell death. During routine maintenance, repair, component replacement, transport, and storage, technicians were repeatedly exposed through direct contact and close proximity.
Nuclear Weapons Technicians were assured they were safe. That assurance was incorrect, dangerous, and potentially deadly. They were not given informed consent. Their radiation exposures were rarely measured, recorded, explained, or managed.
Today, most Cold War–era Nuclear Weapons Technicians still do not know the truth about their exposures.
Silence protected the mission — not the people.
Interview link:
usdailyreview.com/the-silent…
@DarshDavis, @wynnaa_17, @dc_ksh .
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Some stories were never meant to stay silent.
On an upcoming episode of the Price of Business Show, Kevin Price and I sit down with Rick Workman, retired U.S. Air Force Captain and founder of The Sound of Silence Project. @TSOSProject
Rick shares what tens of thousands of Cold War–era Nuclear Weapons Technicians were never told while maintaining America’s nuclear weapons under strict secrecy. The exposure. The silence. The lifelong consequences. And why Congressional action is now essential.
This conversation is also personal for me. My father served as a U.S. Navy Nuclear Weapons Technician aboard the USS Independence CVA-62 during the same era. Like so many others, he carried responsibilities and risks he was never warned about.
Joining us is @KevinPriceLive, host of the Price of Business Show, as we shed light on a chapter of history that still needs acknowledgment and action.
The interview link is coming soon.
Please watch for it, listen with an open heart, and be ready to share.
Some truths change everything once they’re finally spoken.
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ALT Happy, Safe, and Healthy New Year to all... Veterans and family volunteers started outreach and legislation efforts for The Sound of Silence Project four years ago. Working directly with the DC staffs of Congressman Bergman (MI) and Senator Cortez Masto (NV) over the past 22 months, we’ve made progress on a proposed draft congressional bill. There are many roadblocks and hurdles yet to overcome. An estimated 17,000 of approximately 30,829 veteran Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps Nuclear Weapons Technicians who maintained those weapons during the Cold War have passed... and many more die as we continue to work and wait on the DOD, VA, and Congress to act. To all who see this (media please note): Please urge House Committee on Veterans' Affairs members, to work with Congressman Bergman & Senator Cortez Masto to number, present, and pass the proposed draft bill(s). #TheSoundOfSilenceProject #Veterans #NuclearWeaponsTechnicians #ColdWarVeterans #IonizingRadiation #DeptOfWar
Senator Cortez Masto, we wish you the very best of holidays also.
Thank you again for your DC staff's hard work on The Sound of Silence Project for Cold War period Nuclear Weapons Technicians from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps -
I look forward to meeting you in person some day, perhaps while you're here in Nevada at some point.
- Rick Workman
Great job Harris, I’ve never worked on or near nuclear power plants, but I have a great appreciation for the skills required and risks involved in maintaining and managing the nuclear materials, and the supporting systems.
I worked on live nuclear weapons for many years during the Cold War. The major difference was that we were exposed to ionizing radiation at all times during our daily work on the weapons deployed throughout the world… without our knowledge or consent.
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FAQ
Q: Were nuclear weapons actually radioactive?
A: Yes. Live nuclear weapons continuously emit ionizing radiation.
Q: Were technicians aware of the exposure?
A: No. The exposure was not disclosed, and radiation monitoring was generally not used.
Q: Why aren’t these veterans recognized today?
A: Federal law does not list Cold War Nuclear Weapons Technicians as radiation-exposed veterans.
Q: Is this still affecting people now?
A: Yes. Thousands are ill or deceased, and claims are routinely denied.
Q: What can fix this?
A: One change to federal law recognizing their occupational exposure.
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TV newscasts and request for your help:
Cold War era Military Nuclear Weapons Technicians want recognition of radiation, toxic chemical...
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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.