When a dropped wrench nearly blew up Arkansas

The History Guy remembers the 1980 Titan II Explosion. In 1980, a dropped wrench created a crisis inside a nuclear missile silo in Damascus, Arkansas. This is an updated episode based on viewer comments.

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