The Air Force Lied

Aircraft returned to GAFB for decontamination
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George AFB’s Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing Decontamination Centers

March 1, 2026
If you lived or worked near the west side of George AFB, at an engine test cell, or in the weapons test bunker, you were likely exposed to unsafe levels of fission byproducts (radioactive dust) from decontaminating dozens of aircraft and equipment used in the open-air nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). This exposure could potentially pose serious health risks to [Read More…]
January-June 1963 Inspections of Nuclear Activities at Manned Interceptor Squadrons
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Nuclear Weapons at George AFB

February 23, 2026
George AFB was one of 35 bases that had Fighter Interceptor Squadrons with air-to-air nuclear weapons for stopping enemy bomber attacks. Because legacy nuclear weapons required regular onsite maintenance, a considerable amount of radioactive contamination/waste would be generated during the polonium-beryllium (Po-Be) initiators’ replacement operation. The Air Force has repeatedly denied that there were any nuclear weapons at George AFB. Additionally, the Air Force [Read More…]
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Federal Agencies Can And Do Lie

August 25, 2024
FOIA 5 USC 552(c) exempts information from disclosure.  For some national security (nuclear weapons – 91b radioactive material) & law enforcement content, the agency can legally lie to you about its nonexistence, 5 USC 552(c) – on top of Glomar (“can’t confirm or deny”) responses. To avoid both of these scenarios, exclusions authorize the agency to “treat the records as not subject to [Read More…]
logo ATSDR Public Health Assessment No Completed Exposure Pathways
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George AFB’s Flawed Public Health Assessment (PHA)

January 1, 2023
The Air Force deliberately misled the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), Congress, and the American people about the toxic substances present at George AFB, CA. They failed to disclose the Completed Exposure Pathways (CEPs) and potential health threats to base personnel, their family members, civilian employees, and the surrounding community. The ATSDR relied on the Air Force to supply the [Read More…]
sampling for perchlorate was unnecessary
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DoD – Report to the Congress Perchlorate in the Southwestern United States

July 3, 2020
In 2005, the DoD/Air Force deliberately misled Congress about the possibility of perchlorate from George AFB contaminating the aquifer used for drinking and irrigation water. As early as 1982, the DoD knew that there were several sources for perchlorate contamination in the Southeast Disposal Area (SDEA). The SEDA is about a ¼ mile upstream of the drinking and irrigation water supply wells for [Read More…]
West Winds Golf Course and pond
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George AFB’s West Winds Golf Course

July 30, 2018
If you played (as a child), lived next to, played golf, or worked at the West Winds Golf Course from 1965 to 1981, you were most likely exposed to unsafe levels of partially treated sewage and industrial waste containing known carcinogens. Before 1965, George AFB discharged its industrial waste into the Mojave River. On November 17, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive [Read More…]
Criteria for the Certification and Re-Certification of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
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EPA 1996: Lost AEC Records – Example of Passive Institutional Controls Failure at Air Force Bases (Including George AFB)

December 18, 2011
Lost AEC Records Another recent example of the failure of records to maintain knowledge of waste burial operations pertains to low level nuclear waste buried on U.S. Air Force controlled land under the authority and purview of the AEC.22  This example in no way establishes or suggests that the sites in question pose an immediate or long term risk to human health or [Read More…]