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1. A Polish-Ukrainian NSBM band
2. A Japanese Hardcore Punk band
3. A Belgian Thrash Metal band
4. An American Hardcore band
5. A German Thrash Metal band
6. A Mexican Thrash Metal band
7. A British Thrash Metal band
8. A Russian Progressive Death Metal band
9. A side project band of Algy Ward (Tank), EVO (Warfare), and Wurzel (Motorhead)
10. An Italian Stoner/Metal band

1) An NSBM band with Nokturnal Mortum vocalist Knjaz Varggoth and Olaf Jasiński (Honor, Battlefield, october 15 ). They play fast Black Metal with RAC tendencies.

2) Early 90's Hardcore Punk band from Kyoto, Japan. Their incredible fast and crushing brutality is some of the heaviest punk music ever recorded in japan. The band is still active until this day.

3) A thrash/speed metal band from Belgium formed in 1983
they released 2 albums
-Speedway
-The Day After

4) An American Hardcore band from Virgina

5) Classic/Thrash Metal band from Osnabrück, Germany. They founded in October '93 and in 2007 released their fourth studio album "CAPTURED".
http://www.warhead.de

6) Thrash metal band from Mexico. They published a Demo album in 2008 and they announced they first album in this year called "Spit the Cross" (http://warhead-thrash.tk)

7) British Classic/Thrash metal band from Torbay - http://www.reverbnation.com/warheadmetaluk

8) Progressive Death Metal from Russia.

9) In 1996, one album was released under the name Warhead by a metal supergroup consisting of Algy Ward (Tank), EVO (Warfare), and Wurzel (Motorhead).

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@stargazer2504

2y↑144

Eric Schlosser wrote a book, and there's a documentary called "Command And Control" about this incident. The tech that actually dropped the socket was finally able to speak about the incident - it took him 40 years to be able to do it and it still chokes him up. I can only imagine the grief and shame he must feel...something he'll live with till he dies, and I feel so bad for him.
Schlosser noted at the end that, in catastrophes (or even small mistakes), there's an effort to blame the little guy- "the worker who brought the seats cushions onto the plane that caught fire and crashed the plane. There's this instinct to blame the worker. If the system worked properly, dropping a tool couldn't send a nuclear warhead into a field".
That's an important point. Everyone at the top wants to blame the one person, yet no one thought to design the system to be fail safe from such a simple error. And no one thinks to point the finger at the designer.

@maxwellheintz2391

2y↑8

I saw the “Command and Control” documentary when it was on Netflix. It’s excellent. It’s probably still available on PBS’s website.

@jdoyle4811

2y↑18

Mind boggling that SOP's did not include safeguards of single specific designed tool for opening that one inch nut never mind having a tether on 8 lb socket that used an adapter. I know the guys were all young 20 somethings but the military engineers obviously had no risk management program. This refueling team was set up with the controls and safety procedures found in a country gas station.

@steviedfromtheflyovercount4739

2y↑4

@Jack d Agree.

@stargazer2504

2y↑13

@Jack d exactly! Ask any mechanic in ANY field if they've dropped a socket. Hell, there's a running joke about 10mm sockets *always* being lost. Why? Because sockets FALL OFF the wrench. These sockets were so big, just their weight would pull them off the wrench if turned upside down. What engineer wouldn't think of that as a potential problem while standing on a platform 80' in the air? I wonder if NASA had special / tethered tools when working on the launch pad, or at least fall protection? These guys were 20 years old. They didn't have decades of experience working with tools to think of these things. Not to mention- it's the military... if you aren't given the tool by the government, you don't just get to use your own, you use only what they gave you.

@kd1s

2y↑4

Yes indeed I read the book. I found it very interesting.

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@gradycothren2267

2y↑99

I was only 9 when it happened but I remember watching the news with my parents about this. We lived around 55 miles from the silo. Even at that age I was scared because I had read about nuclear warheads and Hiroshima and Nagasaki. My family wasnt that worried but being a kid, it was nightmare fuel.

@livenfree

2y↑2

What did they report in the news? Would think this would all be top secret.

@dellingson4833

2y↑6

I live not far from the minuteman 3 missile silos here in North Dakota. So the midwest is still a target.

@richardroberts7261

I felt the same way as a kid back then.

@blharrison4118

45w↑4

@Michigander I am the person you asked, but I can reply. What did they report? They reported interviews with Air Force officers in full denial mode. They initially said the warhead was never compromised in any way. The truth is they couldn't find the warhead at first amid the debris. They would have loved to cover it up, but folks had been rocked by the explosion.
I was nine years old at the time. One of the men injured was the fiance of my homeroom teacher. My best friend lived five miles from the blast. He was literally knocked out of his bed. The Air Force wanted to do a cover up, but they couldn't keep this one hidden.

@cybersecuritydeclassified4793

34w

Batesville?@@blharrison4118

@RedHotMessResell

2y↑59

Man his skin looks so good. I don’t think I would’ve ever known he’d been burned. But I can’t imagine having to deal with the doctors rubbing the skin off. I’ve heard that’s so incredibly painful. So hopefully the pain medicine was strong.

@Aaron-zu3xn

2y↑1

we put a line literally right in your neck that goes straight to the brain

@ne9835

@Aaron 😱😱

@cf1925

@Aaron ???

@Thegaoat

2y↑8

@Aaron He got lucky that they did the "new" procedure of scraping off the dead skin on him. They probably gave him morphine and didn't feel a thing.

@ilikeminecraftgaming9331

2y↑2

I had to keep reminding myself “the skin is not real,the skin is not real!” Because it looked so realistic XD

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@mikep9032

2y↑11

It was my honor to work this job with these guys. Was this accurate? Well it happened, and the first-hand accounts were spot-on. Interviews make this youtube view.

@robertyoung2819

31w

Did they really use the "socket adapter" AS stated in this documentary...

@georgepacheco8180

45w↑2

I'm so glad to find this video. Greg, it was great seeing you on the video, Noone else could have told the story like you. We need another PTS Reunion.

@Dmhlcmb

2y↑29

Greg Delvin is a hell of a story teller. I could listen to him tell stories all day.

@jamescummins5824

i bet you wou.ld like him to be your boyfriend AYE!!! HAMBURGER!!!

@meaninglessvalue7778

22w

My step-dad met him on a plane, they sat next to eachother. I remember seeing him wearing his Cadillac jacket. He told him his story and even had a binder full of photos. When we got home we watched the PBS doc "command and control" by far one of my favorite docs.

@tomdecuca3627

2y↑31

All these young men were heroes! America owes all these guys a debt of thanks for doing this incredibly dangerous important work!!

@joseavazquez3183

2y↑1

When you say América, you mean Central América?
Because if you mean to say the United States you should then just say the United States

@tomdecuca3627

2y↑3

@Jose A Vazquez Yes. The United States of America. Not Central America.

@cf1925

2y↑1

So every citizen of America???

Not disagreeing, I just wanted to clarify! :D

@pwrprtt1234

2y↑58

Air Force Airmen are a tough breed! Their also one of the most technically advance service men because their training involves academics in various fields!

@joenedbalek4647

2y↑5

🤣😂

@HobieOneCoyote

2y↑17

But, not taught the difference between their, there, and they're.

@alison4316

2y↑1

@Genovese 23 😉

@jgedutis

2y↑8

The airforce is the least tough of any service, including the coast guard

@ThatTaRaGiRL

2y↑2

@Critical Mass OH yea? And what makes you say that? What's YOUR personal experience?

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@NickieMonroe

2y↑73

I'm in AR. Never knew about this. Bles those young men. The response from them was excellent considering what they had to work with.

@philippephilippe.mathers4259

Me neither

@josephsorce2543

2y↑2

"How Ya Doin', Fellow Army Veteran ? ... Hope, You're Well, my Friend"... Joe, in Stockton.

@TheTManShow

Thats because ADULTS seek out this type of information..... you should try it some day after your 8th birthday!!

@TheTManShow

@JOSEPH SORCE someone is DESPERATE for attention....

@lovelyj241

It's the military top secret back when it happened. Time has passed now so they can talk about it.

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@jabels4479

2y↑103

Amazing how much responsibility they gave to 18 year old kids. Shameful how they scapegoated them.

@gregorytraise511

2y↑13

@TONY MONTANA , a different documentary I watched recently revealed they shouldn't have been using the socket in the first place, one of the guys forgot to bring the correct tool in with him, but would have had to exit the silo, desuit, get the correct tool, resuit then re-enter the silo, to save time he used the wrong tool that wasn't designed for the job they were doing. It was Complacency due to laziness that nearly caused a nuclear disaster

@garyjaurique5028

2y↑6

@TONY MONTANA Why you yelling

@jessicasnaplesfl7474

2y↑5

@Gary Jaurique Some people see CAPS better than small letters. Whoever decided that CAPS meant someone was yelling? This TICKS ME OFF! I PREFER to use caps except people like you decide I'm yelling so I cannot do what's most comfortable for me. GET A LIFE!

@jessicasnaplesfl7474

2y↑6

@Gregory Traise TYPICAL example of humanity's fatal flaws. The person who "forgot" the correct tool and used a different tool because it was "convenient" should have been court-martialed and made an example of, along with his SUPERVISOR, who allowed lack of dedication to workplace safety to flourish where perfection should have been demanded. People who work with nuclear equipment and lethal materials should undergo rigorous training and testing similar to those of astronauts! I'm not comfortable knowing less than the best of humans have ANY contact at all with machinery capable of killing others if every bit of their construction is not performed by the smartest and most capable among us.

@charlesbosse9669

2y↑8

@Jessica S, NAPLES FLMy brother was a pipe fitter working at a power plant, they do go through rigorous training to work there. Laziness like that is not at all tolerated. If you get caught breaking even the smallest of safety rules, they get rid of you immediately, and never to be allowed on the premises again.

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@josemoreno3334

35w↑2

Back in 1981. Me and a Staff Sergeant were sent to a Titan II site south of Tucson, Arizona to repair communication cable. It felt strange knowing that there is a missile right under you feet ready to be launch at any time to take out a city somewhere in Russia. I will never forget that. Cold War History. Good video.👍

@arober9758

2y↑25

Excellent stoked job fellows!!
Amazing how much responsibility they gave to 18 year old kids. Shameful how they scapegoated them.

@SwordOfS

2y↑45

A weapon system that powerful and dangerous where accidentally dropping a working tool causes a puncture that can cause a catastrophic explosion...it's not exactly a secure weapon. It's almost as dangerous to you as it is to your enemy. I hope we have better systems today.

@jacobrzeszewski6527

2y↑6

Don’t worry, we don’t. Let’s just hope that differed maintenance is as much a reason as any to start disarming.

@user-hi6nm9od2l

@I’m James, a former TV repair tech. who’s to say they aren’t lying? Lol guess we might find out in the coming weeks

@gregdevlin2162

Hi Swardofs6886, actually, in all the accidents that have happened (Thousands), we've never had an accidental nuclear explosion. It's almost impossible to accidentally set off a nuclear explosion. Even an explosion as big as the one that happened on September 19, 1980, in Damascus, Arkansas, didn't cause a nuclear explosion.

@clownguise5022

2y↑13

Fascinating story :0
I can't stop watching these. It's so terrifying and incredible

@TedApelt

2y↑94

It is well worth pointing out that it is physically impossible for a nuclear detonation to take place unless the warhead is armed, and that doesn't happen until the missile is launched. Once armed, a very precise (I think it is to the nanosecond) sequence of high explosives goes off in just the exact right way to cause the plutonium core to implode so that it will cause a fission chain reaction that then causes the fusion reaction to take place that showers the U238 outer casing (which can't chain react) with such a huge pulse of neutrons that all of the atoms in it split at once to produce the full blast.

Without arming the warhead, there will be no nuclear detonation, although it could scatter plutonium, U238, and other things great distances if any of the high explosives detonated, which is very unlikely, (there are very few things other than a detonator that will set them off) and didn't happen in this case.

The thing to worry about is a rocket fuel explosion, which is always a very real concern, and did happen in this case. I am surprised it didn't happen much earlier. That fuel is every bit as hazardous as this video makes it out to be.

@soteriology1012

2y↑6

This is only correct if we are talking about a bomb made of a hollow plutonium sphere crushed & imploded into a sub critical central spherical piece of U235 to set it off. If the bomb is made with U235 a simple gun type explosive drives one sub critical mass of U235 into another creating a full critical mass. If the device contains hydrogen I am not sure how that would affect the detonation.

@jed-henrywitkowski6470

2y↑6

Based on the title, I was not expecting the Damascus Incident. I am no nuclear scientist, however, I know enough from personal studies going back to my high school years that what you say is correct and that the world would not almost end over a single incident.

I thought thought that something happened to the coms in a particular wing that almost caused a launch of misles.

@trirail812productions8

2y↑3

do we still use missiles like thies if we had to use one

@kiowablue2862

2y↑4

@Trirail812productions No. The Titan II was taken out of service in 1985. There are others still in use, but they aren't Titan IIs.

@granddaddykaddy1788

2y↑6

@Trirail812productions yup. We have a nuclear triad. Meaning we can launch nukes from land silos, subs, and aircraft. LGM-30 Minuteman 3 is the only operational one we have at the moment I believe. I got out of the Air Force in 2009 though and haven't kept up. We may have hypersonics now. Russia definitely does so if we don't we should probably stop trying to start a war with them over Ukraine 🙄

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@jesseraina1614

2y↑3

Would love to watch more of these type of shows about close calls on top secret American, Canadian, Nato, Cold war and modern day Accidents etc top secret at one time

@brettfraser7682

2y↑6

Awesome documentary. Thanks for posting.

@michaeljohn8905

2y↑5

Wow kudos to these guys. What a great historical mini doc. Thank you to all those guys that made it through and to the family of the hero that didn’t make it. RIP. . You made the ultimate sacrifice and I thank you from my heart. Thank you for posting his.

@daybird2

2y↑226

Great story, but why repeat everything over and over and over? Way too much repetition! Story could have been told in half the time.

@PopcornMax179

2y↑51

Because stuff like this is made for TV, where the ad breaks are so long you've basically forgotten what you just watched and have to get recapped.

@3a.m.284

2y↑31

Too young to remember cable tv?

@gdale0777

2y↑6

I agree. What a joke.

@royalkingdomcommando6379

2y↑7

Probably was televised, (ads deleted to format it for YouTube) would be my guess for the repetition.

@jeffreylangford962

2y↑3

Watch command and control this show looks like it was a cut and past from that show

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@heatherweikle3122

2y↑10

My Husband's brother in law Airman Joseph Patrick Tallman , was there walking away from the complex when it blew. The stories of that day that he told me . I will never forget how he went into the silo to recover his fallen team members. Hotchkins lymphoma is what he was diagnosed with. Many yrs of kemo, and radiation treatments. Many yrs later through my travels I finally moved to Leslie, Arkansas. Planning a trip to Damascus , Arkansas. He said " when I was walking away from my complex when it blew I threw my helmet over my head after the blast. With material was falling out of the sky going through the helmet and debre melting on his face mask ". He got exposed only after going back in to get his crew ! They are National Heros ! We're still here.

@yourfuneraldirector6432

2y↑18

Raised in ND, there were these missile sites all over the landscape. 12 miles from our house was a large square cement fortress with a special panel facing North towards the Soviet Union. My step-dad worked inside that building after his tour in the Airforce. It is still standing and still used as a radar for incoming missiles. It's location is near Concrete, ND between that and Mountain, ND. I don't know if you can see it on Google earth but it's an impressive campus.

@kiowablue2862

2y↑6

That's the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex. It was operatonal for less than a year. The program was canceled
in February of 1976. The facility was sold to the Spring Creek Hutterite Colony in Dec of 2012. In 2020, portions of the property including the Pyramid were sold to the Cavalier County Job Development Authority.

@yourfuneraldirector6432

2y↑3

@kiowablue thank you for the information! Its nice to connect with someone who knows about where I grew up.

@scottb8175

1y↑3

Yes, it is visible on Google Earth. The Cavalier Air Force Station (between Concrete and Mountain), There is another ex-military complex with another weird radar antenna building; the "North Dakota Pyramid". It is just northeast of Nekoma, ND. The US air defense planned on building another facility like it in Montana, but it was cancelled. There are abandoned ICBM silos all over that area, too. Another fun fact - the once tallest (KVLY tower, 2063' until 2019 - now reduced to 1984', near Blanchard, ND) and current tallest (KRDK tower, 2060', near Galesburg, ND) man-made structures in the Western Hemisphere are also in North Dakota, only about 10 miles from each other.

@LastAvailableAlias

36w

The panel is likely synthetic aperture radar.

@igorschmidlapp6987

30w

@@kiowablue2862 They are selling old silos to developers for doomsday bunkers. Look up "Survival Condo".

@l3lackwater9o4

2y↑9

There is a documentary called Command and control which is about the Damascus missile explosion. Its really good and worth a watch if you like this video!

@meaninglessvalue7778

22w

Greg Devlin, the first gentleman shown, my stepdad sat next to him on a plane ride from florida, i remember seeing him because i noticed his cadillac jacket. He showed my stepdad a binder full of photos from the incident. When we got home we watched the pbs doc "command and control" one of my favorite documentaries.

@arionhoward3861

2y↑6

Let’s go love this channel

@blharrison4118

45w↑1

I was nine when this happened. My best friend lived about five miles away. He was literally knocked out of his bed from the explosion.
The next day I was sitting in my fourth grade classroom when the principal and an Air Force officer entered. They whispered a few words to my teacher, who then grabbed her purse and went down the hall with them. Her husband had been injured in the explosion. I'm not certain if he is one of the men interviewed in this documentary.

@RSEFX

42w↑2

Narrator accidentally refers to David Livingston as "Jeff" Livingston at one point. We don't want to forget him or his name. Brave man and a sad loss.

@zew1414

2y↑21

So they couldn't just find a nearby Harbor Freight and get a 1" socket so they didn't have to use a crappy adaptor!? Seriously...damn!

@1978garfield

2y↑9

Wanna bet those sockets and ratchets were custom built by defense contractors.
You know, the only guys that make Snap-On look like a bargain.

@zew1414

@1978garfield Oh you definitely right about that! 👍

@dutchhoke6555

Yup. Always use the proper tools for the job. No Micky Mouse..

@playgroundchooser

2y↑2

If I remember right, the socket itself weighed 8 pounds. Not a Harbor Freight purchase exactly. 😁

@JOKing-ku8jg

@1978garfield Kent-Moore ( cost more ) !!!

@iansargent196

2y↑9

This American Life also did an episode on this. It's probably my favorite. This is such a harrowing story especially considering how young these men were to have such an immense job to do.

@garywheeler60

24w

Thanks for the upload.....

@mdoe5568

24w

Very frightening. I was 7 years old when this happened and never knew anything about it. Thank you to all the Veterans that sacrificed so much and continue to sacrifice to serve this country and protect all of us. I hope every Veteran involved in this disaster knows how brave they are and that they are Heroes. THANK YOU. You are loved.

@christopherleubner6633

1y↑2

Im very close to the site this happened at. A guy that was there said that the nuke itself was shot into the sky like a mortar and landed a bit past the perimeter fence. Thankfully the warhead's safety and security systems worked as expected ❤

@funnydylan9834

2y↑2

21:52 this fact gave me chills. It would have scared me a lot to hear that after a traumatic moment from the explosion. 🥶

@LectronCircuits

2y↑20

What a blast! A bit too much redundancy, per chance bad editing? Audience wishes survivors all the best. Cheers!

@livenfree

2y↑2

Tap right and fast forward during repeat parts.

@dennispfeifer7788

2y↑15

This happened in Damascus Arkansas in 1980...explosion blew off the 20 ton blast doors and threw them a considerable distance about 1/4 mile or so if I remember correctly...they found the 9 megaton warhead some time after the explosion...there were 18 titan II silos in Central Arkansas I believe...that's what I recall...there was one, 1 mile from our house...

@beatngu5513

2y↑3

On the bright side you wouldn't have felt anything lol

@livenfree

2y↑3

Why did we need SO many!

@gregdevlin2162

2y↑5

It was a 740 Ton silo door that was blown 600’ away, into a stand of 50’ tall pine trees :)

@mongolikechewchew2475

2y↑2

Thanks for the cliff notes.

@dominicseanmccann6300

2y↑3

No point running then. Same as where i grew up in west London. You were screwed. Put yer head between ya legs' time...if you have it!

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@chainlink1261

38w↑1

Scary but fascinating - huge respect to the brave fellas that stayed and did what was needed.

@vatodad

2y↑30

The design engineers fully understood the potential dangers associated with this system. Everyone who worked near the missile was fully aware of potential dangers, and the entire system was designed with consideration of the dangers associated with liquid fuel systems. In fact, when this happened, they were in the process of replacing these ICBM's with the Minuteman III, which is solid fuel. Liquid fuel systems have tremendous inherent dangers associated with them, as we saw with the shuttle explosion!!!

@lukezhang3017

2y↑4

Ironically, the shuttle actually exploded because of a failure of the solid rocket boosters. This type of liquid fuel is hypergolic, making it especially dangerous.

@tazcahoon4051

Why not just change to design of tbe floor so sockets can’t fall through them?

@BigBlueJake

@Taz Cahoon There's going to be a space between the catwalks/platforms and the missile itself. You don't want to interfere with the missile launch by having to scrape against a bunch of stuff surrounding it.

@andyvan5692

49w↑1

not just these rockets, remember the Me-164 ? this had the Greman idea of c-stoff and t-stoff as fuels, both acidic, neer the pilots' seat, and explosive (hair triggered, if in contact with each other); they even employed two trucks, which backed away from the aircraft before the other one arrived!; one would think by 1960 they would have learned their lessons?

@LastAvailableAlias

36w

One downside to solid rockets is once you start them you can't stop them and you can't control their output. With liquid fuel you have pumps you can control and shut off so there is a tradeoff.

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@aaronjennings8385

2y↑2

Thank you angel lady.

@Herowebcomics

2y↑2

WOW!
That accident was crazy!
But not as crazy as it could have been!

@yomommaahotoo264

2y↑23

This video could've been 2/3's shorter but for endless repeated scenes.
Ridiculous.

@PopcornMax179

2y↑3

Because stuff like this is made for TV, where the ad breaks are so long you've basically forgotten what you just watched and have to get recapped.

@yomommaahotoo264

2y↑1

@PopcornMax179 Another reason over the air broadcasting failed....but now it's here doing the same thing and buying censorship from YT.

@Elo-hv3fw

they have to have to say everything everything twice and three times three times.

@vegandogs

2y↑3

When I drop a tool while under the
hood, I'll never again get frustrated.

@jelink22

2y↑12

I've reported elsewhere on YouTube that my AF father took me inside an operational Titan II site outside Tucson, AZ back in 1965.
He was one of the rotating site commanders for that site, having "graduated" from Titan I's at Ellsworth AFB in SD.

I actually stood on the top of the "W-duct" directly under the missile , the two olive drab rocket nozzles about 20 feet directly above me. I looked up the silo housing the rocket and could see plumes of venting liquid nitrogen, and was told a 10 megaton warhead was in place in the ICBM's tip. Was it "waaaay cool"? Yes, yes it was.

But here's the thing: while I was gawking at this gigantic piece of lethal technology I heard a loud metallic "clang!" from a tool being dropped several levels above, apparently just dropping to the level's floor. I didn't think anything of it at the time, but when it turned out that a "dropped socket wrench" caused the Arkansas accident years later, that memory came flashing back.

@NickFrom1228

2y↑1

I remember while walking between the missile tubes on a boomer that there is enough firepower to kills hundreds of millions of people. Sobering.

@jamesbarnard9710

2y↑2

@Nick Knight They used to call them "Sherwood Forest" because the tubes were painted green. I got aboard the old Abe Lincoln at Port Canaveral and actually got under the first stage nozzles (they were replacing the hydraulics package and had the hatch open). Unlike the Soviet SLBM's, which used N2O4/UDMH, U.S. and British SLBM's, like Minuteman I, II and III have all been solid propellant. The reason Titan II used hypergolics was so they didn't have to be loaded with liquid oxygen just minutes before launch...like Titan I and Atlas D, E & F, until the solid propellant Minuteman could be developed. LO2 or "Lox" is still used in satellite launch vehicles like SpaceX Falcon9 and Starship. But they don't have to worry about 15-30 minutes warning of incoming warheads.

@dave.cholula

2y↑3

Thanks!

@WonderDocs

Thanks for the support! 🥳

@0nlyRemaining

2y↑15

Don't worry if you miss the previous scene while watching this, guaranteed you will see it again at least 3 times more.

@karnagekollectibles

I hate that with modern TV shows. They treat the viewers like idiots.

@deadmangaming2535

@MonsterSteve it's a recap, the ads are so long that most people forget a lot of what they previously watched. It's like this in the video because this was originally made for TV so they didn't remove the recaps

@andrewtoombs3867

2y↑2

how the guy moved from the blast but had minor injuries, that is an act of god.

@jason1440

2y↑3

I feel for these men. I can only imagine the blame, shame, and denial they got from the VA and the DOD.

@Justin.Martyr

I am Sooooo SAD, that the BOMB, did NOT Go OFF!!!

@boat_life

2y↑1

What an incredible history of sadness! Luckily most of you were safe after all!

@ianriggs

39w↑2

Anyone that is willing to risk their life for the safety of their country it's not really surprising that they would risk their lives to save their friends and the people they feel are part of their family. That doesn't make it any less amazing and admirable 👍. These guys really are an example to the rest of us

@daryllect6659

27w

There's no way I'd risk my life for this country.

@kennethtrayer5565

2y↑12

I believe it was due to these type scenario that we had "drop mitigation" training. We had to have wrenches and everything strapped to our wrist. Good idea overall, would have saved a few lives and equipment over the years if implemented earlier.
I have been around someone involved with the incident this film is about......glad I never had to deal with anything like that.

@JOKing-ku8jg

All these tools should have been pinned. This is what happens when you send a boy to do a man's job !!!

@robertyoung2819

31w

Just having the correct wrench... INSTEAD OF A SOCKET ADAPTER... Would have been a game changer... Really... Piecing tools together with ADAPTERS... DOH!!! In a missle silo... With a nuclear missile... Using the correct tooling for the job... Should have not been in the protocol at all...

@jillw892

2y↑1

This was a good video thank you

@natecote1971

2y↑5

I was involved in a gas fire and got 60% of my body burned including my entire face its absolutely amazing how the face heals that guys face healed well to! My face was even worse than his and still healed perfectly. And he's right when you get burned like that it feels like your still on fire! Oh the pain they gave me morphine it didn't even touch the pain, they gave me ketamean and the mix of the 2 finally eased the pain so I could finally calm my breathing. Worst experience of my life I couldn't walk for 3 weeks it was pure hell I wouldn't wish on anyone but pure monsters!

@jordanalbano9780

watching that socket fall sent my anxiety through the roof

@CaptArgo24

2y↑39

Does anyone agree that we do everything SCI-FI movies warns us not to do?

@paulbedichek2679

2y↑2

Sci Fi warns us not to surrender, but Biden already has.

@geeharveyoswald

They are movies

@jamesaitchison1077

They are movies. Until there not!

@additudeobx

2y↑8

Nuclear warheads are extremely difficult to detonate. They require precise intentional and directional forces.
It's a good thing that the Silo was so well fortified, otherwise things would have been worse.
This is not the first time that there was a Titan II ICBM incident. I remember as a child living in Colorado that my Mom mentioned another Missile Silo incident... I just googled it....it was in 1965, also in Aransas.
That breech in '65 was a much larger incident than this 1980 one.

@derekwall200

2y↑2

true but the W53 warhead used RDX high explosive lenses (which were NOT insensitive) so even with the weapons safeties there still was a chance it could have gone off

@climbtibet

2y↑1

Special folks involved with these programs; God bless them all for their selfless service!

@NickFrom1228

2y↑5

@Derek Wall With "going off" being quite relative. If the HE did explode, the real question would be whether it would go super critical or whether it would just spew radioactive debris all over the place, or perhaps some kind of partial nuclear yield. That HE is pretty sizable on its own. If I recall it would destroy a city block give or take. At a minimum it would be one hell of a cleanup job.

@michaelthornsberry7929

34w↑1

I WAS IN THE AIR FORCE,WHEN THIS HAPPENED i WAS STATIONED AT WILLIAMS AFB AT THE TIME,MAN THIS WAS A BIG DEAL THEN I WAS AT WORK WHEN THIS HAPPENED AND PEOPLE CAME IN AN TOLD US WHAT HAPPENED,A BUNCH OF US GOT DOWN ON OUR KNEES' AND PRAYED FOR ALL INVOLVED.

@ghostrider.13

Wow...totally worth watching. Really good show.

@bldlightpainting

2y↑23

As a teenager, my brother and I snuck onto this nuclear missile military base some time after the historic Titan 2 Missile explosion, gaining unprecedented access down deep into the underground compound.

@jonathanlopez6469

2y↑7

That sounds like fun but scary at the same time! You never know the amount of radiation a place can have after 20 years

@jamesaitchison1077

2y↑1

I dont think I would be worried about radiation so much they probably had the warheads sealed up pretty well. I would be more worried about residual hydrozene

@justindurante1740

1y↑4

@thomasdaily4363

1y↑3

@Justin Durante I agree. BS.

@assghoul

1y↑1

@Thomas Daily Total BS, they cleaned up the debris and filled in the crater right after it happened. There was no compound left to sneak into.

@rizzorizzo2311

38w↑1

Couple things they didn’t mention is that the reason they had to use the extension on the socket was because they left the right drive wrench in the truck and because it takes so long to get up and down they decided to use the extension and just hold it on with their hands. The platform was supposed to have a rubber guard that closed the gap between the missile and the platform but it had deteriorated over time and the gap was just big enough for the socket to fall through.

@russellst.martin4255

2y↑1

It's wild how one minute you could just be sitting there augmenting doomsday weapons and the next thing you know lives are being endangered.

@williampilling3218

2y↑1

That sounds like a bad day in the office.

@ohsunkang1177

33w↑1

Honestly, if a "traditional" chemical explosion like this is so terrifying, imagine how an actual nuke blast would feel to regular people...

@timmturner

2y↑1

I was four years old and living close to this location when it took place, I've known about this accident because nuclear incidents interest me but I just told my mom about it and she didn't know it ever happened which I find strange.

@firstnamelastnameisallowed7943

2y↑1

That is a miracle that the one guy survived, i dont remember his name LoL but to survive that is one thing, but to have no scares on his face and everywhere else he was burned? Thats amazing!!

@timhamlett5042

26w↑1

As a former launch crew member for the Titan II who knows people that were at the site when the fuel exploded, I can state with complete certainty that the warhead did not explode. I have the utmost respect for the PTS personnel that worked with the highly toxic and explosive fuel and oxidizer.

@fasteddie4145

21w↑1

The Nuketone is correct.....

@timhamlett5042

21w

@@fasteddie4145 LOL 😂 Thanks Eddie

@ajbaumgart4774

37w

This is a incredible story and very sad at the same time

@ronalddesiderio7625

47w

I’m speechless 😮 God Bless these young men 🙏🏼

@ringsixty

I was on alert at silo 3-2 when this happened. Truly a Broken Arrow nightmare.

@u_t2347

2y↑1

Never heard of this accident before now.

@yuvanbaldwinew9282

This was awesome.

@katr8756

2y↑1

Oh my gosh!!! That's some scary stuff! ... Unbelievable! SMH!

@regish759

2y↑3

The title is misleading : that wasn't a "warhead" explosion -or none of these guys would've lived to tell about it : the warhead of a missile doesn't detonate unless it's supposed to, there are numerous sensors that need to give the correct outputs for the warhead to even be active. They're built to withstand hours in a burning pool of jet fuel without detonating -maybe they'd "fizzle" i.e. leak a tiny amount of radiation, but that's it.
That explosion was the fuels of the missile exploding -like they said N2O4 and UDMH are very nasty chemicals in themselves, so in an uncontrolled detonation they have the potential to do much damage...
For further info read "Ignition : An informal history of_liquid rocket propellants" by John D. Clark

@vegandogs

2y↑4

What's most fascinating is the time loop the explosion created, I can't imagine reliving the incident over and over until space-time reconverged in the area!

@therealchayd

41w

ikr! I had to check the timestamp just to make sure I hadn't accidentally hit rewind!

@alfredritcher

2y↑2

Why the hell would we build something we cannot control so dam short sighted

@johnsmith-ug5tp

All you guys and American heros!
Proves the brilliance of the scientists and engineers that designed these awe inspiring and beautiful warheads. Thank God for the bomb!

@Madmen604

2y↑1

One of these days we'll see some major loss of life from accidental nuclear explosion.

@Scott-lz3pp

40w↑1

I never heard of this until I read the book (recommended by Amazon's computers). Wow! And towards the end of my career as a nuclear engineer (civilian power production, not weapons). I guess most people don't share my appreciation of history. And my love of reading, which is my main hobby (along with drinking!).

@joeanderson5292

2y↑2

I have a lot of respect for those fellas

@danmiller2177

That called knowing your job very well....👍👍👍👍👍

@Scott-lz3pp

40w

More detail on the warhead would have really been nice; it barely got mentioned, and only in the last 5 minutes of the video. Which was still excellent, by the way.

@jekku4688

2y↑18

"...and now I am become death, destroyer of worlds..." Robert Oppenheimer understood the power and responsibility of nuclear weapons. But finding out--after the fact--how close we all came to annihilation, makes me gobsmacked. That those men survived at all is beyond amazing. They ALL had guardian angels, it seems like.

@NV555_82nd

We didn't come close at all zero chance of nuclear detonation.

@waynemerlo7448

Bravo to the real hero's the guy's that had the guts to stick around!

@JB-rt4mx

38w↑2

So the Military Complex couldnt think or afford a Custom made single bar wrench for that single Nut and Task .

@grantt1589

2y↑7

The Titan was used to deploy the 9 megaton B53 bomb and was used in the Geminni program

@kiowablue2862

That'd be the W53 warhead. The B prefix denotes a bomb dropped from an aircfaft.

@grantt1589

@kiowablue I think it's the same warhead core, just the version for ICBM

@albertvonschultz9137

2y↑2

They really need to go through this documentary and edit out all the duplicates. There's a movie out there called disaster at Silo 7. One thing is if it would have went off it wouldn't have said any of the other ones off. We do need our nuclear defense weapons which we now have Minuteman missiles

@davidstrother8726

2y↑1

I was a airman back in 2000 and I never heard about this.

@whalehands4779

I was stationed at Little Rock AFB. Heard this story many of times and even went to the site.

@leomartin1903

WOW!!! You can't MAKE this s*** up. These people are AMAZING.

@SanchoGracie

2y↑1

Socket wrenches & Brillo pads now trigger my anxiety.

@securitybreachalert3464

2y↑1

oof lol

@KidDynamite6

2y↑2

this was the absolute most terrible day at work lol knowing YOUR accidental mistake doesn’t cost a company.a little money but wipes out the midwest

@speaklifegardenhomesteadpe8783

BUDDY ROCKS!!!

@David-bq8vz

12w

This video is excellent. Great work. Heartfelt gratitude to all these men and especially the young man who lost his life.

I live in Arkansas near another missile site that caught fire and killed 53 men. The very strange twist to this story is it involved the same missile as this incident in this video.

@whirledpeas3477

51w↑1

Can't blame it on Harbor Freight Tools. Blame it on the tool that dropped the socket.

@dickritchie2596

20w

I used to work at NNSA. I've never been surrounded by so much corruption and incompetence in my life.

@anticom6099

2y↑1

I can only imagine what they were thinking after the socket they dropped ruptured that tank. That’s a big oopsie

@Poorschedriver

2y↑1

And this is why you don't use Harbor Freight sockets children...

@Overlycomplicatedswede

35w

Crazy to see the fact chris blasko was in this video as he is also in the Joplin tornado video
Meaning he survived two of the worst disasters in US history

@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk

22w

How is the Titan missile destruction one of the worst disasters in history? Only one person died. I can think of hundreds of disasters worse than this.

@igorschmidlapp6987

30w

The Titan II. Used as the booster for the Gemini program at NASA. They used the Atlas for the Mercury orbital program after they dumped the Redstone after the sub-orbital flights.

@jeanlucdiscard

49w↑1

With these close calls in the US, I don't even want to think about the close calls that must have happened in the USSR.

@dathyr1

2y↑3

Was this ever mentioned on the news of the incident? Those silos with those powerful missiles ready to go at any time are scary to even think about. They now have a doomsday clock set at 100 seconds till midnight. Hope we never have to use them now with the Ukraine-Russia buildup going on.

@killman369547

The war in Ukraine is a side-show compared to what's going on with China and Taiwan....

@penduloustesticularis1202

2y↑1

When they keep repeating the same description of the event over and over it takes away from the magnitude of the incident, not enhance it.

@rocketscientist1594

1y↑4

If you want to see a Titan II missile up close and personal, go visit the Titan Missile Museum, about 20 miles south of Tucson AZ. The whole place is set up just like it was back then, with lots of exhibits outside. There is an actual (nonfunctional, nonfueled) missile in the silo, with a nonfunctional replica of the warhead. On a guided tour, you walk down into the silo, through the blast door, down the hallway to the missile itself, taking the same path the technicians took, to view the missile from about ten feet away, then back to the control room to watch a re-enactment of the launch procedure. You can also look down the silo fron ground level, with the warhead (replica) right in your face. Very, very impressive, and very sobering, especially today with Putin’s threats of using nukes.