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The Real Story of How We Came Close to Nuclear Armageddon

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A new documentary focuses on the Sept. 19, 1980, explosion of one of the Air Force’s Titan II missiles in Arkansas—a Kafkaesque saga of human error and bureaucratic incompetence.

Lloyd Grove

Published Sep. 14 2016 5:50PM EDT

articles/2016/09/14/the-real-story-of-how-close-we-came-to-nuclear-armageddon/160914-grove-command-control-tease_ojfqfm — PBS

Lloyd Grove

Lloyd Grove

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