In September 1980, one dropped socket inside a Titan II missile silo triggered a countdown to catastrophe. Beneath a farm in Arkansas sat a 9-megaton nuclear warhead—armed, leaking fuel, and seconds ...

Now, Newsweek has looked at Scientific American's previous fallout maps of a nuclear attack on missile silos in the U.S ...

Filmmaker Robert Kenner takes us behind the scenes and tells us how he was able to depict a deadly accident that took place in a missile silo in Damascus, Arkansas in 1980. From costuming to ...