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@kenshirriff also...zero unintended or unauthorized launches (AFAIK)
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@kenshirriff @johnefrancis  @kenshirriff @johnefrancis the 1964 Minuteman incident is written up here: https://www.armytimes.com/news/2017/11/04/details-of-south-dakota-nuclear-missile-accident-released/ As for the Damascus incident, there's Eric Schlosser's whole book, Command & Control  @scruss @johnefrancis I heartily recommend the book Command and Control. @kenshirriff @johnefrancis agreed. The whole thing starts with "You did *what* on top of two tanks of hypergolic fuel?" I think the moral of both stories is : go back to the damn truck to get the right tool |
@johnefrancis Well, there were at least two incidents where the warhead was accidentally launched off the missile. Best known is the Damascus incident where a worker dropped a socket, causing a Titan missile to eventually explode, flinging the warhead hundreds of feet. There was also an incident where a worker was debugging the Minuteman silo security system. He pulled a fuse, bizarrely causing a retrorocket in the missile to ignite, flinging the warhead off the missile and it dropped 75 feet to the bottom of the silo.
@johnefrancis Well, there were at least two incidents where the warhead was accidentally launched off the missile. Best known is the Damascus incident where a worker dropped a socket, causing a Titan missile to eventually explode, flinging the warhead hundreds of feet. There was also an incident where a worker was debugging the Minuteman silo security system. He pulled a fuse, bizarrely causing a retrorocket in the missile to ignite, flinging the warhead off the missile and it dropped 75 feet to...