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Just watched a Documentary on the Titan II missile explosion in 1980
Posted on 10/23/19 at 1:53 am
Posted on 10/23/19 at 1:53 am
Happened in Arkansas north of Little Rock.
Somehow I had never heard of this incident.
Pretty scary... guy drops a socket during maintenance and nearly sets of a nuclear explosion that would have had fallout that could of killed me before I was born (I was in the womb at the time).
Damn Air Force, you scary.
Somehow I had never heard of this incident.
Pretty scary... guy drops a socket during maintenance and nearly sets of a nuclear explosion that would have had fallout that could of killed me before I was born (I was in the womb at the time).
Damn Air Force, you scary.
This post was edited on 10/23/19 at 1:56 am
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Posted on 10/23/19 at 1:57 am to NATidefan
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This post was edited on 10/23/19 at 2:45 am
Posted on 10/23/19 at 2:16 am to TDsngumbo
Posted on 10/23/19 at 2:47 am to Adam4LSU
Yep, missle blew up in its silo, ejecting the nuclear warhead 300 yards or feet away, luckily nuclear warheads don’t explode that way....or no Arkansas and surrounding States
Posted on 10/23/19 at 3:16 am to NATidefan
Posted on 10/23/19 at 3:35 am to NATidefan
Ironically, Arkansas’ football program resembles a nuclear wasteland at the moment
Posted on 10/23/19 at 7:04 am to NATidefan
It's crazy to think about some of these incidents like this you don't hear much about. There was also an incident in the fifties where a nuclear bomb was dropped over South Carolina. Fortunately they had stored the core in a separate part of the plane.
Posted on 10/23/19 at 7:08 am to NATidefan
A real argument can be made that taking out Arkansas completely in 1980 would have been addition through subtraction for the U.S. in toto.
Posted on 10/23/19 at 7:14 am to NATidefan
The road to where that happened sometimes has interesting lights on it.
Posted on 10/23/19 at 7:20 am to NATidefan
They did a 'B' movie about it & I was an extra in it; was filmed outside Tucson.
Posted on 10/23/19 at 7:21 am to CamdenTiger
quote:might be overstating the warhead's yield there....
r no Arkansas and surrounding States
Posted on 10/23/19 at 7:23 am to NATidefan
The US also dropped a nuclear bomb on North Carolina in 1961. WHOOPS
Posted on 10/23/19 at 8:17 am to NATidefan
Wasn't there nuclear testing in Mississippi at one point?
Posted on 10/23/19 at 8:28 am to ldts
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It's crazy to think about some of these incidents like this you don't hear much about. There was also an incident in the fifties where a nuclear bomb was dropped over South Carolina. Fortunately they had stored the core in a separate part of the plane.
The impact crater is still partially visible.
Posted on 10/23/19 at 8:33 am to NATidefan
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Pretty scary... guy drops a socket during maintenance and nearly sets of a nuclear explosion that would have had fallout that could of killed me before I was born (I was in the womb at the time).
That's not how nuclear bombs work...
It certainly could have pushed radioactivity into the air but I highly doubt a nuclear explosion would have happened.
Can you tell us where you watched the doc? I'd love to see it
Posted on 10/23/19 at 8:35 am to NATidefan
My parents lived in Bossier at the time of the Cuban Missile crises.
Posted on 10/23/19 at 8:36 am to NATidefan
I thought it was nearly impossible for them to accidentally go off.
Posted on 10/23/19 at 8:37 am to Tigeralum2008
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Can you tell us where you watched the doc? I'd love to see it
I saw it on Netflix..Its called Command and Control
Posted on 10/23/19 at 8:37 am to ThuperThumpin
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I saw it on Netflix..Its called Command and Control
Posted on 10/23/19 at 8:39 am to ThuperThumpin
I saw it too and read the book. The book tells of a fairly long history of near misses with nuclear tech. Good read.
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