FORT BLISS, Texas (AP) — Army investigators have detected radiation at a former nuclear weapons bunker at Fort Bliss and they’re determining whether people on the West Texas post have been exposed, officials said Tuesday.Post leaders said contaminated residue was buried in the 1950s and 1960s, when the base was operated by the Air Force. A man who worked there at the time contacted officials earlier this year expressing concern in case additional housing were to be built on the sprawling post, where officials launched an investigation.
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