That night we almost blew up Arkansas. It started with a dropped socket. During routine maintenance inside a Titan II missile silo in Arkansas in 1980, an eight-pound tool slipped from a worker's hand, fell 66 feet, and punctured the missile's fuel tank. The silo exploded, blasting debris, concrete, and even the nuclear warhead hundreds of feet into the air. Somehow, the weapon never detonated. But it reminds us how close America accidentally came to having its own 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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