Command and Control | movie | 2016 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

September 18, 1980, 6:25 p.m., Titan II base in Damascus, Arkansas. On this fateful night an explosion kills an Air Forc | dG1fZmN1ZWFpTkI2SEE

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00:00I was fairly new to working out on the missile sites.

00:11Right above us was a nine megaton thermonuclear warhead.

00:15It was a monster waiting to go off.

00:18You think about working on a weapon of mass destruction,

00:22you're counting on everything to work perfect all the time.

00:25And things just don't work perfect all the time.

00:30From the very beginning of the atomic age,

00:36there has been a sense of this immense power

00:39just being on the verge of slipping out of our control.

00:45The warhead on top of the Titan II was three times as powerful

00:49as all the bombs used in the Second World War,

00:52including both the atomic bombs.

00:55Sheriff, has the Air Force told you very much?

00:58They haven't told me a darn thing.

01:00Does that make you mad?

01:01Yes, it does.

01:02We got a potential nuclear explosion 46 miles from here.

01:07If that warhead explodes,

01:09the little one's gone.

01:11Do we let the world know?

01:14What do you do?

01:15The governor of the state of Arkansas is Bill Clinton.

01:31As regards the nuclear explosion, all we can do is to trust the experts.

01:36Is there a warhead on the site?

01:38I cannot confirm or deny.

01:39The Air Force is telling people it's not happening.

01:44I just want to run and hide.

01:46Before September 18th,

01:48This is just a nightmare.

01:50The only warheads that we thought would go off in the United States would be Soviet.

01:56We never considered our own warheads could detonate on our own continent.

02:02Nuclear weapons are machines, and every machine ever invented

02:05eventually goes wrong.

02:09I won't care.

02:10That's why.

02:10I want it.