They Handled Nuclear Missiles. Now They’re Getting Cancer

From skim reading it's as likely to be PCB exposure, or radon or a number of situational things, not MILSPEC bomb neutrons.

I knew an epidemiologist who worked on ww2 cancer rates and he told me a lot of postwar diseases in the ex serving cohort just came from being on ships with plastics, rubber, paint, fuel (benzene) and free smokes handed out like candy at the PX.