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A Mechanic Dropped an 8-Pound Socket Down a Missile Silo—and Nearly Caused America’s Chernobyl
On the night of September 18, 1980, a Titan II missile carrying a thermonuclear warhead exploded in rural Arkansas. Here’s what the terrifying incident was like, from those who were there.
"Disaster at Silo 7" was a 1988 television movie about a missile accident at a U.S. Air Force Titan II launch complex. The incident in the movie was similar to the explosion that occurred at Launch ...
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The 1980 Titan II explosion that nearly detonated a nuclear warhead
In September 1980, a Titan II missile armed with a nuclear warhead exploded inside its silo in Damascus, Arkansas. Toxic fuel vapors filled the underground complex before a massive blast hurled debris ...
At 6:30 p.m. Sept. 18, 1980, at a missile launch facility in Damascus, Ark., two maintenance workers set to work on a minor fix on the Titan II missile housed inside a silo. An intercontinental ...
Danger in the Silos | The Titan II missile incidents of Arkansas To stream 10 Tampa Bay on your phone, you need the 10 Tampa Bay app.
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When a normal work day in two nuclear missile facilities in Arkansas became a disaster and could have been a cataclysmic change to the state.
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