Season 29

A detailed recount of the 1980 incident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas, that narrowly risked triggering the detonation of a ballistic missile carrying a nuclear warhead with a yield roughly 600 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. The near catastrophe began when a socket fell from an airman’s wrench during maintenance inside a Titan II silo, puncturing the missile and releasing a stream of highly explosive rocket fuel.