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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.
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The 1980 Titan missile accident that nearly triggered a nuclear disaster
In September 1980, a Titan missile silo in Damascus, Arkansas, filled with toxic fuel after a catastrophic malfunction. Inside the underground complex sat a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic ...
"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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A dropped wrench nearly triggered nuclear disaster
In 1980, a routine maintenance task inside a U.S. nuclear missile silo went catastrophically wrong. A dropped socket wrench punctured a Titan II missile, causing highly volatile fuel to leak into the ...
Picture this: The world is ending, but you're 50 feet underground, nestled behind two 6,000-pound blast doors, watching every season of "Friends" on a 144-inch projection TV. Well, the end of the ...
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