Tuesday, December 26, 2017

(re "this american life") WORTH LISTENING TO: A FIRSTHAND NARRATED ACCOUNT OF THE DAMASCUS TITAN EXPLOSION, RURAL ARKANSAS, 1980

"The Damascus Titan missile explosion was an incident in the United States in 1980 in rural ArkansasLiquid fuel in a U.S. Air Force LGM-25C Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile exploded at a missile launch facility on September 19, 1980. It occurred at Launch Complex 374-7 in Van Buren County farmland just north of Damascus, approximately fifty miles (80 km) north of Little Rock.[1][2]

The Strategic Air Command facility of Little Rock Air Force Base was one of eighteen silos in the command of the 308th Strategic Missile Wing (308th SMW), specifically one of the nine silos within its 374th Strategic Missile Squadron (374th SMS), at the time of the explosion..."



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