The lost nuclear bombs that no one can find - BBC Future
▻https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220804-the-lost-nuclear-bombs-that-no-one-can-find
The US has lost at least three nuclear bombs that have never been located – they’re still out there to this day. How did this happen? Where could they be? And will we ever find them?
#Broken_Arrows: Nuclear Weapons Accidents | atomicarchive.com
▻https://www.atomicarchive.com/almanac/broken-arrows/index.html
Since 1950, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents, known as “Broken Arrows.” A Broken Arrow is defined as an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons that result in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft, or loss of the weapon. To date, six nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered.
Titan missile incident 1980 – Casillic sur Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/Casillic/status/1629604077104427008
Damascus, Arkansas, U.S.A
September 18-19, 1980
During routine maintenance operations, an airman dropped a 6-inch (8-Ibs) socket wrench. The socket punctures the side of the Titan missile. Liquid fuel from missile ignites and explodes, throwing ~9MT warhead out of silo.
sur ce dernier incident, le chapitre 1 du documentaire (2017)
Command and Control, Chapter 1 - YouTube
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPJDZlL17s4
A chilling nightmare plays out at a Titan II missile complex in Arkansas in September, 1980. A worker accidentally drops a socket, puncturing the fuel tank of an intercontinental ballistic missile carrying the most powerful nuclear warhead in our arsenal, an incident which ignites a series of feverish efforts to avoid a deadly disaster.
Command and Control premieres on PBS at 9/8c on January 10, 2017.
d’après le livre Command and control
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser : 9780143125785 | PenguinRandomHouse.com : Books
▻https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/303337/command-and-control-by-eric-schlosser
ABOUT COMMAND AND CONTROL
The Oscar-shortlisted documentary Command and Control, directed by Robert Kenner, finds its origins in Eric Schlosser’s book and continues to explore the little-known history of the management and safety concerns of America’s nuclear aresenal.
“A devastatingly lucid and detailed new history of nuclear weapons in the U.S. Fascinating.” —Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine
“Perilous and gripping . . . Schlosser skillfully weaves together an engrossing account of both the science and the politics of nuclear weapons safety.” —San Francisco Chronicle
A myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear weapons
Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: How do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? That question has never been resolved—and Schlosser reveals how the combination of human fallibility and technological complexity still poses a grave risk to mankind. While the harms of global warming increasingly dominate the news, the equally dangerous yet more immediate threat of nuclear weapons has been largely forgotten.
Written with the vibrancy of a first-rate thriller, Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a nuclear missile silo in rural Arkansas with a historical narrative that spans more than fifty years. It depicts the urgent effort by American scientists, policy makers, and military officers to ensure that nuclear weapons can’t be stolen, sabotaged, used without permission, or detonated inadvertently. Schlosser also looks at the Cold War from a new perspective, offering history from the ground up, telling the stories of bomber pilots, missile commanders, maintenance crews, and other ordinary servicemen who risked their lives to avert a nuclear holocaust. At the heart of the book lies the struggle, amid the rolling hills and small farms of Damascus, Arkansas, to prevent the explosion of a ballistic missile carrying the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States.
Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with people who designed and routinely handled nuclear weapons, Command and Control takes readers into a terrifying but fascinating world that, until now, has been largely hidden from view. Through the details of a single accident, Schlosser illustrates how an unlikely event can become unavoidable, how small risks can have terrible consequences, and how the most brilliant minds in the nation can only provide us with an illusion of control. Audacious, gripping, and unforgettable, Command and Control is a tour de force of investigative journalism, an eye-opening look at the dangers of America’s nuclear age.
version complète du documentaire
Command and Control 2016 - YouTube
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVLRJ4u8Owg
Documentary of 1980s near-Nuclear Ground Explosion of a Titan II Missile in Damascus, Arkansas in Silo 374-7, based on Eric Shlosser’s award-winning book of the same title. A riveting minute by minute account of the accident started by the failure to follow written maintenence procedures.
Accident de Thulé, Groenland
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accident_de_Thul%C3%A9
documentaire absolument remarquable, à tous égards !
