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OT: great documentary - bobdizole - 07-02-2018 09:25 PM

Command and Control on Netflix

Documents not only the Titan 2 disaster in Arkansas in the 80s, but how the military covered up a 1000 more significant nuclear accidents. Was quite eye opening


RE: OT: great documentary - bobdizole - 07-02-2018 10:14 PM

https://youtu.be/s7Sg0NTEivE


RE: OT: great documentary - thespiritof1976 - 07-02-2018 10:40 PM

Wasn't a nuke almost accidentally dropped over North Carolina in the 60's ?


RE: OT: great documentary - bobdizole - 07-02-2018 10:43 PM

(07-02-2018 10:40 PM)thespiritof1976 Wrote:  Wasn't a nuke almost accidentally dropped over North Carolina in the 60's ?

They discuss that in this doc. It was completely armed and if not for a single safety switch it would have detonated. Who knows if this was over dramatic, but the former head of nuclear weapon design described that switch as simple as a light switch