Recent Featured Videos and Articles | Eastern “Orthodoxy” Refuted | How To Avoid Sin | The Antichrist Identified! | What Fake Christians Get Wrong About Ephesians | Why So Many Can't Believe | “Magicians” Prove A Spiritual World Exists | Amazing Evidence For God | News Links |
Vatican II “Catholic” Church Exposed | Steps To Convert | Outside The Church There Is No Salvation | E-Exchanges | The Holy Rosary | Padre Pio | Traditional Catholic Issues And Groups | Help Save Souls: Donate |
This Is How Close We’ve Come To Nuclear Armageddon
didyouknowfacts.com
It reads like the plot of a disaster film or a dystopian YA novel, but in reality, the upcoming Command and Control is a documentary about that one time we all almost died and had no idea.
On the night of September 18, 1980, Airmen David Powell and Jeffrey Plumb were assigned to carry out some “routine” maintenance on a nine-megaton warhead called Titan II. I put routine in quotes, because I feel like any time you’re working on a nuclear missile with 600 times the destructive power of the bomb that took out Hiroshima, maybe the word doesn’t apply in the strictest sense.
The 21-year-old Powell would probably agree, especially after he lost his grip on his socket wrench and it dropped 70 feet, bounced off the metal platform, and punctured the missile. Volatile rocket fuel exploded and sprayed in every direction. No one, not even seasoned military personnel, knew what to do, and the Air Force spent two days addressing the damage to both the nuclear weapon and their reputation.
I mean, worst case scenario, tens of millions of Americans could have been killed or otherwise violently affected.
Now, director Robert Kenner (the man behind documentaries like Food, Inc. and Merchants of Doubt) is framing the story for his new film, and not only does it relay the story of what happened, but it tells the story of the government conspiracy to suppress news of the incident from the general public.
Sign up for our free e-mail list to see future vaticancatholic.com videos and articles.
Recent Content
^