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A dropped wrench nearly triggered nuclear disaster
In 1980, a routine maintenance task inside a U.S. nuclear missile silo went catastrophically wrong. A dropped socket wrench ...
"Disaster at Silo 7" was a 1988 television movie about a missile accident at a U.S. Air Force Titan II launch complex. The incident in the movie was similar to the explosion that occurred at Launch ...
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The time when a dropped wrench almost triggered nuclear armageddon
During the Cold War, the world lived under constant nuclear tension, but one of the closest calls came from a simple human mistake. In 1980, a technician accidentally dropped a wrench inside a Titan ...
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