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The $8 Socket That Almost Nuked Arkansas | Titan II Damascus

In September 1980, inside Titan II Launch Complex 374-7 in Damascus, Arkansas, an eight-pound socket slipped from a mechanic’s hand. Seventy feet below, a fuel tank thinner than a dime stood between that falling tool and a nine-megaton W-53 thermonuclear warhead. This documentary walks step-by-step through how a routine maintenance job on a Titan II ICBM turned into the most dangerous nuclear accident on U.S. soil – and how the safety systems, and sheer luck, kept central Arkansas from vanishing off the map. What you’ll learn in this video: The exact physics of the 80-foot free fall and tank puncture Why Titan II fuel tanks were *thinner than a dime* by design How hypergolic propellants like Aerozine-50 and nitrogen tetroxide turned the silo into a fuel-air bomb The decisions facing Airman David Powell, Jeff Kennedy, David Livingston, and the SAC chain of command How the explosion launched a 740-ton silo door and threw a 9-megaton warhead into an Arkansas field Why the Damascus incident helped kill the Titan II program – and what it still says about modern nuclear safety --- *Chapters* 00:00 Socket Drop in Silo 374-7 02:30 Inside Arkansas’s Hidden Titan II 05:45 Why the Tank Walls Were Thinner Than a Dime 09:10 Hypergolic Fuel: Designing for Instant Launch 12:45 A Silo Filling with Poison Vapor 17:10 No Procedures, Only Improvisation 20:45 Kennedy and Livingston’s Deadly Mission 23:30 The Explosion and the Flying Silo Door 27:10 Recovering the 9-Megaton Warhead 31:30 Investigation, Blame, and Tool Tethers 36:10 Retiring Titan II and the Lesson of Damascus 39:00 Could It Have Killed Millions? --- If you’re interested in Cold War technology, broken-arrow incidents, and how complex systems fail, consider subscribing for more declassified engineering disasters and nuclear near-misses. #titanII #damascusincident #coldwar #nuclearhistory #engineeringdisaster #brokenarrow #airforce #strategicaircommand #icbm #documentary #1980s #nuclearweapons #militaryhistory