A seemingly harmless everyday accident was responsible for the destruction of an Arkansas nuclear missile silo. Here's how ...

In 1980, a dropped socket wrench triggered a chain reaction inside a Titan II missile silo—putting a 9-megaton warhead at the brink of detonation. The world came terrifyingly close to disaster.

Crews clean up the Titan II missile silo in Damascus following a 1980 explosion. This story, published in the January 1981 issue, serves as a reminder of the perils of the nuclear age. John Stacks ...

Little Rock's MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History screens the documentary “Command and Control,” details of the explosion at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus in September 1980 ...

Arkansas hosted Titan II nuclear missile silos that were decommissioned and abandoned in the late '80s, but one man has taken it upon himself to give the Cold War legacy of the Titan new life.

Titan Missile Museum In Sahuarita, Arizona, in the midst of a retirement community, tourists can touch a Titan II missile, still on its launch pad. Tom Miller June 2011. Get our newsletter! Get ...