Disaster at Silo 7 (1988-TV) Peter Boyle, Michael O'Keefe, Patricia Charbonneau, Dennis Weaver

[@russelltippins2985]

Peter Boyle was the MAN. To also have Dennis Weaver on board... this is Gold. Thank you for sharing!

[@davidscott3820]

When accual incident happened I was guarding nukes at a missile sit in south dakota. When the movie came out in 88 I was guarding a air base in portugese azores. Thanx for putting it on.❤

[@harryecke5399]

guess, there have been very much more incidents, which could have inspired this ...

[@davidcogburn6725]

I was a Security Police Missile Field Controller, directing security in the missile field for the 384th at McConnell for two years. Had the opportunity to spend time in the capsule of a Titan II site as well as looking up the missile from the bottom up in the water well at the exhaust of the missile and looking down from the warhead. It was an impressive site for sure. Participated in numerous fuel transfers on the security side. Six years after leaving McConnel AFB, I had the opportunity to participate in the launching of Titan IIs, Atlas, Minuteman, and Titan 34Ds at Vandenberg AFB, CA. Loved working at those 25 launches.

[@davidscott3820]

@@davidcogburn6725 cold war veterans! Tip of the spear, always ready.

[@doreen0]

Hello David, I’m so happy you’re still here with us Did you enjoy the movie? Oh I see it was made in 1988 and you were guarding and airbase in Portugal. You must’ve been through a lot of dangerous work out there. Will you just take care of yourself your family and Hope everyone’s health is fine. Take care. Have a Evening🌌👍🏼🇨🇦

[@davidscott3820]

@@doreen0 I'm 70 years old and enjoying retirement now. 😁

[@davidscott3820]

Thanks for putting this on. I'm a cold War vet usaf/sp (sac). This movie true to the pbs show "command and control". I shared and saved.

[@igordrakulovic6857]

40 minutes in, what a ride. Top notch ! Stellar cast

[@mlpxxmlp]

I read "Command and Control" recently. Thank you for sharing this movie.

[@fluxfaze]

Those eastern Texas mountains in the opening scene totally cracked me up.

[@berhorst59]

The actual incident was in 1980, at Damascus, Ark. Google 1980 Damascus Ark Titan Missile accident, and other than the location, and names, it is the same story. The dropped, socket, the leak, one man died, etc. The whole enchilada

[@RobertStrange-oe1tt]

Regardless of the obvious bending of artistic license, the point the movie seems to be making is that the whole technology /military industrial system is a very complicated endeavor, a double edged sword if you will; and we better keep an eye on it if we don't wanna do ourselves in

[@renebernays5774]

..... too late

[@JohnnyRayedd-Neck]

Very similar to Star Wars but there’s no Luke Skywalker apart from that almost identical movies. I can see where they got the inspiration for this movie from.

[@allandavis8201]

I have seen this film before and it is really quite good, being based on real events makes it even better, obviously they have been given a bit of a Hollywood twist and events made even more dramatic but not as much that it spoils the film.

[@flashgordon6670]

There’s a documentary about this called Command and Control.

[@centralplains7608]

Thx for the heads up on "Command and Control" documentary. Just watched it and found it to be a POWERFUL indictment of both USAF Chain-of-Command and U.S. Government incompetence, negligence and malfeasance‼ In private industry (eg Boeing) they get rid of the CEO.☑ In the military, it's always the junior ranks that seem to get the blame.👎🏽

[@jimwalshonline9346]

It's excellent.

[@lyndonnixon-x9m]

very under rated film

[@JohnnyRayedd-Neck]

Very similar to Star Wars but there’s no Luke Skywalker apart from that almost identical movies. I can see where they got the inspiration for this movie from.

[@domht]

Unfortunately a very true story .... Damascus Missile Explosion

[@vintagebrew1057]

I see Ray Baker in the cast list, I'm up for it. Lovely actor. Thanks

[@scottl.1568]

How did I miss this?!

[@ZENmud]

I know how I missed this... was working in a ski resort hotel 3-11pm, skiing 5-7 days per week. After work, into the bar until 2am... 🎉

[@jeffharper9703]

Oh aye bobbid, that's what happens daddy'o ☝

[@karengower-um6of]

Good movie. I loved Dennis Weaver one of yesteryears greatest actors. I agree with someone else here how was it possible for a dropped wrench to pierce a missile.

[@DoctorShocktor]

A missile isn’t an armored tank. It’s a relatively thin skinned aluminum tank in which the outer surface of the missile was actually the outer wall of the fuel tank. The socket dropped was eight pounds, not an auto parts unit, falling from eighty feet. This easily pierces a lot of surfaces.

[@1ask2risk]

The socket in question as quite large, and was supposed to be tethered to the handle, but as the movie says, they forgot it. And it did not actually pierce the side, it hit the thruster supports and bounced up under the missile and hit an exposed and very thin walled fuel cell. Not a time I fondly remember. When Livingston was killed, his girlfriend was also on a maintenance team of some type supporting the site. Poor child was a basket case for a period. We all wanted to say something, but what do you say? the Fuel cell, breached, leaked and the the alarm sounded. What was not shown, 100,000 gallons of water I think, is dumped into the silo. This act created 100,000 of volatile water now. And as the cells empties, the weight could not be supported and it collapsed and ruptured the Oxidizer cells and BOOM! Bobs your uncle. It threw the silo door just under a quarter mile.

[@centralplains7608]

With all the "Broken Arrow" incidents (now declassified), it's a wonder that none of these nukes vaporized any places in America‼😵‍💫

[@johnhallett5846]

because a lot of things have to happen to set a nuclear bomb off. Or for a nuclear missile to launch and detonate. One thing both sides worked on from pretty much the beginning of the nuclear era was making sure that an accidental nuclear explosion was next to impossible

[@LordZontar]

It takes a specific set of pre-conditions to arm a nuclear warhead and effect its detonation. Also, the explosive lenses that initiate core implosion in the first fission stage cannot be damaged, otherwise you don't get that ideal uniform compression and instead of a detonation you get a fizzle. Nuclear warheads are more difficult to successfully detonate than you imagine. One won't go off simply because it falls to the ground.

[@harryecke5399]

excuse me, but You meant "any places all over the world", didn't You?!

[@centralplains7608]

@@harryecke5399 Actually, more concerned w America than incidents overseas. It was WRONG for USAF to "neither confirm nor deny" the existence of nuclear weapons to U.S. governmental authorities, local, state and federal.

[@mikhailiagacesa3406]

@@centralplains7608 So you're not concerned about Russian, PRC, and North Korean missiles having 'Accidents'?

[@sergioandreu1026]

Película muy recomendable. Gracias por subirla

[@williamshinault7517]

Wow, I didn’t even know this happened, I wonder how many military incidences occurred during to time of no social media!

[@Jens-Viper-Nobel]

There wasn't an accident like the one portrayed specifically in this movie, but there were several very close calls with leaks and other malfunctions. This movie is playing with the "What if" scenario where it doesn't remain a close call. Now, in this movie, they show us that the actual cause is oil/hydraulic fluid that mixes with fuel vapors. And since there were so many situations where these missiles were patched up time and again, it must be called a miracle that something as bad as this didn't actually happen. But there are still missiles out there, and because they are man made systems, unfortunately it can only be a matter of time before something as bad as this scenario will actually happen in realtime. So this movie should actually be mandatory watching for any crew on any missile system within both SAC and the US navy. Because it touches a lot of the issues with people not really knowing what to do and not wanting to stick their neck out even when needed to solve the issues. And most importantly, it showes just how important it is to imagine all the worst case scenarios when planning for accidents and mishaps in dealing with such volatile systems as an ICBM system, however remote or unrealistic it might seem initially. Because it is always the the details that have the devil in them. Not the grander issues.

[@dlb3512]

This is why the Air Force should never have been trusted with liquid fueled missiles.

[@EZ-E56]

The "vapor" they keep referring to is hydrazine. A poisonous rocket fuel that explodes when coming in contact with an oxydizer (a chemical that supplies oxygen). Nitrogen tetroxide was the oxydizer stored on the Titan missiles to combine with the hydrazine to cause combustion. Nitrogen tetroxide is a bright orange gas.

[@awoopa_paul5867]

Well done 👏 👏

[@WalterViggiano-it6sy]

If the object fall hard and fast enough and is heavy enough, any part of the older missiles can be punctured. This just happened to an area at the fuel tank

[@DoctorShocktor]

The fuel tanks actually composed the outer skin of the missile. Quite simple for an eight pound metal object falling eighty feet to pierce them, unlike the conclusion of the “youtube engineer experts” here. 😂

[@LordZontar]

Titan was a liquid-fueled missile and one with a very thin chemically-milled aluminum skin to save launch mass, and as has been pointed out, the missile core stage was just one big tank itself, with two internal domes separating the hydrazine fuel and the nitrogen tetroxide oxidiser. A falling socket wrench could easily pierce that skin. The blast didn't happen immediately. The hypergolic fuel leaked for several hours before something, a short-circuit probably, ignited it.

[@JanetElson]

If you can make it through the first 30 mins it turns out to be interesting

[@jacarts2793]

Just chatted with someone who helped find the pieces. He was in the command center when it happened.

[@tommywestmoreland6113]

No mountains in East Texas. Looks like New Mexico!

[@outlet6989]

This movie should have a subtitle: " Who's in charge?" Officers are conditioned to never take responsibility for bad things on their watch. They always try to pass the buck to those under their command: "I didn't tell anyone to turn those fans on." Anyone with common sense should know that turning on a fan can cause sparks.

[@JohnnyRayedd-Neck]

I’m watching This movie and it was was on TV when I was a kid, and reminds me of when I was a little boy. I walked in on my parents having sex when I was 11. At the time I didn’t know I was just a kid. mummy was on her hands and knees pretending she was a horsey and daddy was riding her from behind pretending he was a jockey . But what I didn’t get was, why they were naked? So at Sunday school the following Sunday I told Mother Maria my Sunday school teacher the game mommy and daddy were playing and I asked why they had no clothes on? She had no idea either!🤔

[@berhorst59]

One thing's for sure. The producers of this movie have never been to Texas. Mountains and desert is in west Texas. Eastern Texas is marsh and forests,and a few rolling, gentle hills.

[@horsegoggles]

Actually it was all filmed in Tucson and Green Valley AZ. There's a missile silo museum in Green Valley. At least there was the last time was down there. The palm trees were the give away.

[@doreen0]

@0:58:23 Now you could see who had given the order about going back and pulling the switch. It wasn’t a command to go back and wait it was a command to go back and pull the switch.

[@flashgordon6670]

Pretty decent film, a bit cheesy but what do expect from the 1980s? 8/10

[@Drgonzosfaves]

It bounced off the wall with enough force.

[@JohnnyRayedd-Neck]

Very similar to Star Wars but there’s no Luke Skywalker apart from that almost identical movies. I can see where they got the inspiration for this movie from.

[@richardtaylor3798]

Wasnt Dennis Weaver-that cop back in the 70s Mc Cloud think his name was rode around on a hoarse---that was weird but good as was that film with the truck chasing him.---im getting so old.

[@markkirby-kh6yc]

A distirbing story made even creepier by Xfiles composer Mark Snow.

[@bobjohnson205]

And "Hart to Hart"! lol

[@markkirby-kh6yc]

@@bobjohnson205 i love that disco theme from hart to hart by Mark Snow

[@plateshutoverlock]

The end titles looked like the style the "X-files" used. Also, this music sounds like the music used in "Unsolved Mysteries" around the time this movie was first aired.

[@borzak101]

LOL "Eastern TX'. East TX is all piney woods, no mountains. Film is based on incident that occured in Arkanss, and it doesn't look anyting like that either.

[@privatebubba8876]

And hence the description "suggested by an actual event.."

[@plateshutoverlock]

When that small explosion happened, a heard a bunch of cowboys having a duel adjust the panic.

[@briankistner4331]

PBS American Experience has a doc on the actual event called Command And Control. Very good account as to what happened.

[@harryecke5399]

Also documentary about Damascus-Incident is' worth to be seen. How young the boys on the controls had been! And what they earned at last!

[@CharlesOdell-i2y]

I remember when the real incident happened. I shrugged it off. Guess I should not have.

[@CharmaineNel-t4n]

😮😮😮😮How stupid can a person be. And then also talking where you had sex. You don't tell a major that kind of things. It is personal 😮😮😮😮

[@Packyboy]

You know, the military simply the best

[@JohnnyRayedd-Neck]

Very similar to Star Wars but there’s no Luke Skywalker apart from that almost identical movies. I can see where they got the inspiration for this movie from.

[@richardstaples8621]

Ring a ring a rosie a pocket full of posie... We all fall down!

[@pamrice6359]

Once again, behooves us to ask the question; "What kind of mind comes up with such weapons of destruction?" Insane.

[@DoctorShocktor]

Well the MAD “mutually assured destruction” concept kind of demands that all participants own some type of deterrent weapon system. I’m not particularly upset that major countries have these weapons to hold others at bay. Although the idiocy of the American voters in 2016 did nearly put control of these weapons in the hands of a maniacal con man (Trump). Luckily, it’s pretty well known that the American military leaders would never have let him anywhere near an actual launch or use of these weapons and would have taken control along with most other government leaders until more sane persons could be in charge.

[@ApacheBob41]

Calm down, Karen

[@pamrice6359]

@@ApacheBob41 i see. being concerned about the constant continuing destruction of our planet by these types of weapons is being a karen, huh? ... i feel sorry for you

[@citizen23606]

Just remember the lowest bidder won the contract to build these military hardware

[@JohnnyRayedd-Neck]

Very similar to Star Wars but there’s no Luke Skywalker apart from that almost identical movies. I can see where they got the inspiration for this movie from.

[@mikhailiagacesa3406]

Pretty sure Titan II's were retired by then. Not because of liquid fuel so much as the 9MT 'crust buster'. Too big a yield for most targets. Most strat bombs since the 90's are 440 to 480KTs.

[@ZENmud]

36:35 ~ 😂😂😂😂 hilariously bad! It's August 29th, at "19h00" 😂😂😂😂 in Arkansas(?) and dark out?

[@stang5755]

Arkansas is where the actual event happened. The film's setting is 'East Texas' - but then again thats even worse, lol Hey TV films in the 80s and 90s, after all.

[@ZENmud]

@@stang5755 😎😎 i think, after I typed that, some dialog was "you're in Texas, Sheriff..." (whatever) and I thought about editing... didn't. All fun.

[@davidscott3820]

When I was stationed in Missouri (sac) 1985, we had anti nuke people in our guard flight. They did their job and peacefully protested in civilian clothes. Upholding their 1st ammendment rights and not bringing a black eye to the usaf.

[@johnhallett5846]

I never had any sympathy for the morons so stupid they thought the Soviets would just lay down their arms if we did it first. And that is exactly what they thought

[@susiedyer3260]

The actual incident happened n Arkansas

[@stuartwise5709]

An OK movie, definitely felt like made for TV

[@Krycek21]

Mark Snow did music for X-Files. And more

[@ernststavroblofeld1961]

Hi time to end collaboration with a new world. They're too reckless.

[@JasonBender-mo6qv]

Does that include former first lady Barbara Bush Janet Reno United States needs to know please what about Dolly Madison first lady of the White House

[@dfsengineer]

There is an excellent book on the Damascus Incident (the basis of this movie) called COMMAND AND CONTROL by Eric Schlosser. Highly recommended.

[@bsastarfire250]

Wonder what state the Russian missiles are in ??

[@christopherwhite4458]

Damascus Arkansas....look it up

[@fredericklmeade2947]

IMDb rating = ⭐️ 5.3/10 … Watch at your own risk.

[@plateshutoverlock]

The wife should've put her feelings aside for the time being and followed her husband's instructions to leave with the kids without hesitation. The kids' safety comes first. "If something happens" she wouldn't have been able to do anything if it was a nuclear explosion, which the husband knew was a real possibility.

[@flashgordon6670]

It was the stupid missile’s fault for being a bit old. What about the Minuteman missiles today that replaced Titan II? They’re even older than the T2 was back then.

[@leftcoast9090]

Minutemen are and always have been solid propellant. I worked on many solid propellant rocket/missile motors including the Minuteman. Atlas and Titan were thin skinned.

[@ogukuo97]

@@leftcoast9090 IIRC, they were also internally pressurized which adds to the danger when their skins are pierced.

[@leftcoast9090]

Yep, liquid propellant stages had to have positive pressure in tanks. Saw an Atlas on its side at Edward's. It had enough pressure to keep it from collapsing, but was slightly wrinkled skin

[@ogukuo97]

@@leftcoast9090 Almost like a balloon! We can imagine what happens when it bursts. All that toxic propellant. Definitely a dangerous situation.

[@DoctorShocktor]

This was a Titan II, not nearly as thin skinned as an Atlas, but still not an armored tank that would sustain the impact of an eight pound socket dropped eighty feet.

[@stratoleft]

Cripe! Is there no motel out there or are they all booked up?

[@flashgordon6670]

The fuel tank shouldn’t be able to be punctured, by any falling objects. Duh

[@davidscott3820]

But it did. A change for a new wrench, but they didn't have it so they used old one and failed

[@ZENmud]

That wrench was huge! The socket appeared to be assembled big as a large fist.

[@DoctorShocktor]

Despite your obvious engineering “expertise” the wrench socket was eight pounds and fell eighty feet. Let’s drop that onto your head from the same height and see if you think a thin aluminum tank would survive such a blow. It wasn’t an armored tank, it was a spacecraft - built for speed and very temporary strength.

[@davidscott3820]

@DoctorShocktor I'm just quoting the report on pbs that went through official air force channels to be cleared.---dude!

[@jeffharper9703]

​@@DoctorShocktorOh aye bobbid, there ye go fir sure daddy'o ☝

[@lyndonhenderson816]

Sorry folks but this is not eastern Texas😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@davidscott3820]

Mike's best friend I think committed suicide a couple years ago.

[@doreen0]

Pepper, Did not pull the switch on his own, He was Given a command from one of the commanding officers.

[@seannash4695]

I wouldnt do anything different than normal opp.

[@seannash4695]

So Carla of Cheers fame has a second job. Hmmm.

[@NotusHarmonius]

copious amounts of repetition in dialogue

[@jimmyguitar2933]

Dennis Weaver wasn't even in the same movie as the other characters. Peter Boyle barely was.

[@EduardoSnapper-wr8qs]

I didn’t realize that Sgt Swofford was Joe Spano who was in Hill Street Blues.

[@richardredhawk]

A exaggeration and while a fair movie a definite bending of artistic license

[@keithnaylor1981]

Sadly in the 80s many movie producers moved away from using 35mm film which lead to poor quality images like this. Unwatchable.

[@plhebel1]

Solders on duty have to wear their lid (cap) on their heads so in the first minute I knew this movie is poorly done.

[@bobmarshall3700]

Terrible film quality. Fuzzy as hell.

[@jerryhermann7233]

I really enjoyed the show. TO ME its B rated, but just due to low budget. Not saying anything negitave. Just low budget. The short haired wife for me made the movie. I highly recogmend this movie! Just watched th day after. Both of these movies are like the our times right now with russia, and Ukrain. Our world is going to hell in a hand basket! Nov 24

[@JohnnyRayedd-Neck]

Very similar to Star Wars but there’s no Luke Skywalker apart from that almost identical movies. I can see where they got the inspiration for this movie from.

[@CatManCatClan]

THEY SOLD THEM TO OTHER COUNTRIES!

[@DoctorShocktor]

Highly doubtful any Titan II missiles were sold to any other countries, though since NASA used them as well, maybe other countries paid for some civilian space launches? Definitely no ICBM models sold to anyone overseas.

[@debbieradford2974]

Omg! Again! Women who hesitate when they are told to get out!! Worse, she's a mother. Grab those kids by the ge scruff of the collar, get in touch ge car and GO. Good movie :)

[@davidscott3820]

Like job in the bible, becuase of sin in the world, bad things happen to good people.

[@DoctorShocktor]

There is no such thing as sin, and if there was, your “god” would be a monster for inventing it.

[@davidscott3820]

@@DoctorShocktor your just like your father! The devil.

[@MovieMakingMan]

Any ‘god’ that would do that to a man is a sick, sadistic psychopath. That same ‘god’ issued laws saying fathers can sell their daughters into slavery. Another law said if a girl being raped doesn’t yell loud enough she must be stoned to death. Another of god’s 613 laws says if a child is unruly they must be taken to the edge of town to be stoned to death. Another of that ‘god’s’ laws stated if a man rapes a girl there is no punishment. The raped girl must be forced to marry her rapist then spend the rest of her life being raped by the rapist. The biblical god is the most immoral, cruel invention of primitive men in history. It’s laughable how christians believe that nonsense and actually worship that sick psychopath. The Bible is a disgusting book. Christians remain christians because they don’t read that sick book. If they did read it, all of it, they would condemn everything about that despicable religion.

[@MovieMakingMan]

@@DoctorShocktorTrue. It’s laughable how anyone in 2024 can believe what was written by primitive, barbaric, ignorant, superstitious and anonymous men.

[@dancupp9186]

east Texas isn't like that, west texas is, and the used the wrong phonetic alphabet . other wise a good movie

[@greenbeenie2]

was acting really that bad in the 80s

[@jessiedoggie1942]

God help us if Donald J Trump gets his hands on the nuclear buttons.

[@charliehayes244]

He already has had his hand on the nuclear button and you are still here so shut up and quit bitchin damn commie

[@micp0760]

Well he sure as hell does now.....and god is not in any tiny part of this whole screwed up beyond all description catastrophe we now are so blessed with. Any further good ideas? Anyone?

[@twilight-pictures]

Eastern Tx? Pine trees and green. Not mountains and desert.

[@MovieMakingMan]

The entire east texas is between 0-100 feet elevation. No mountains. But west texas has mountains.