Command and Control

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>From the director of the groundbreaking film Food, Inc., comes Command
and Control, the long-hidden story of a deadly accident at a Titan II
missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas in 1980. Based on the
critically-acclaimed book by Eric Schlosser, this chilling documentary
exposes the terrifying truth about the management of America’s nuclear
arsenal and shows what can happen when the weapons built to protect us
threaten to destroy us. Filmed in a decommissioned Titan II missile
silo in Arizona, the documentary features the minute-by-minute
accounts of Air Force personnel, weapon designers, and first
responders who were on the scene that night. Command and Control
reveals the unlikely chain of events that caused the accident and the
feverish efforts to prevent the explosion of a ballistic missile
carrying the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United
States – a warhead 600 times more powerful than the bomb that
destroyed Hiroshima.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/command-and-control/
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