1980 Damascus Titan Missile Explosion

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🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The Damascus Titan missile explosion (also known as the Damascus accident^[1]) was a 1980 U.S. Broken Arrow incidentinvolving a Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). The incident occurred on September 18–19, 1980, at Missile Complex 374-7 in rural Arkansas when a U.S. Air Force LGM-25C Titan II ICBM loaded with a 9 megaton W-53 Nuclear Warhead had a liquid fuel explosion inside its silo^[2] at a missile launch facility. Launch Complex 374-7 was located in Van Buren County farmland just 3.3 miles (5.3 km) NNE of Damascus, and approximately fifty miles (80 km) north of Little Rock. (Coordinates: 35°24′50″N 092°23′50″W.) ^[3]^[4]

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0:00.0	And so I said this isn't your property. Don't throw your garbage on my lawn.
0:06.0	Wait, wait, was he dressed as a mailman?
0:09.0	I mean, yeah. And you yelled at him anyway?
0:13.0	It could have been a disguise. We don't know.
0:18.0	There it is. There it is.
0:20.0	Hey, guys. What do you think?
0:23.0	I think it's a rocket.
0:26.0	Rocket. Rocket. Look at this guy. It's a missile, Noah. I'm not better.
0:31.0	Not better. How exactly did you?
0:33.0	Yeah. Under Trump. These contracts are really easy to get.
0:38.0	Eli, where does this part go?
0:41.0	The warhead heat. Top of the missile, buddy. That's where the warhead.
0:45.0	Dude, the top, seriously, I was just there.
0:48.0	Well, then so far you got to go back. Don't you?
0:51.0	To the top. I quit the missile. This is the worst.
0:53.0	Come on, man.
0:55.0	A real professional heat.
0:58.0	Really cool, but you know, we're actually gonna go.
1:04.0	Yeah, just go. Where are you guys going? I got a missile out of the blast radius.
1:10.0	Fight a nickel, right? Hey, Tom. Tom, little help here.
1:16.0	I'm a space man.
1:19.0	Containment suit, Tom. We've been over this, buddy.
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