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To: bentway who wrote (351169)	9/19/2007 9:48:48 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1573994

I heard of it. when it happened

To: bentway who wrote (351169)	9/19/2007 10:41:17 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1573994

Time magazine got a few details wrong... time.com There was even a movie made about it, but I don't remember it. amazon.com It was headlines here, I can't remember how it was covered in the national media. It was on all of the local networks so I don't think there were any efforts to keep it quiet. I guess you can only tell this story so many ways: Airman drops large wrench. Falls a long way. Hits something and bounces into side of TitanII. Fuel starts leaking. Nine hours later, nine megaton warhead is found 600 feet away after flying through the 740 ton blast door. One man died of two man volunteer crew who were topside after taking readings below. I do remember at the time, someone commenting that if they had opened the doors, it wouldn't have exploded. Someone else said they knew it would blow anyway and that the blast doors would keep the warhead in the silo. Thought I'd add some different data to ted's thought process since he thought an itty-bitty cruise missile nuke was really bad. :)