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 experienced a liquid fuel explosion inside its silo.

2024年11月11日 · On that morning, an explosion in a missile silo blew a 9-megaton hydrogen bomb 100 feet into the air, destroying the launch site and killing an airman.

2024年6月24日 · On September 18, 1980, at about 6:30 p.m., an airman conducting maintenance on the Titan II missile dropped a wrench socket, which fell about eighty feet before hitting and piercing the skin on the rocket’s first-stage fuel tank, causing it to leak.

2024年10月10日 · The 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion, also known as the Damascus accident, was a significant incident involving a Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) in rural Arkansas. It was one of the scariest events of the Cold War involving a 9-megaton W-53 nuclear warhead.

2017年1月11日 · Powell was working on a Titan II missile fitted with a thermonuclear warhead, tucked away underground in Damascus, Arkansas. When the socket fell, it plunged 70 feet to pierce the side of the...

2024年9月22日 · Satellite imagery has revealed that a recent Russian test of the RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) ended in failure, according to open-source intelligence analysts.

On September 18, 1980, a Titan II missile exploded near Damascus, Arkansas. Here’s what the terrifying incident was like, from those who were there.

2024年9月18日 · A Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian missile facility early Wednesday threw up towering fireballs visible from space and thundering detonations that triggered earthquake monitors.

This might sound like an exaggeration, but on September 18, 1980, a missile hidden underground in the Ozarks sprung a leak in one of its fuel tanks. Hours later, the missile exploded, destroying the silo and command complex and sending twisted metal …

The Nyonoksa radiation accident, Arkhangelsk explosion or Nyonoksa explosion (Russian: Инцидент в Нёноксе, romanized: Intsident v Nyonokse) occurred on 8 August 2019 near Nyonoksa, a village under the administrative jurisdiction of Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russian Federation.