The Damascus Titan missile explosion was a 1980 U.S. nuclear weapons incident involving a U.S. Air Force LGM-25C Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile at Missile Complex 374-7 in rural Arkansas.
A Titan II ICBM in its launch silo
B53 nuclear bomb
Videos
The Mk/B53 was a high-yield thermonuclear bunker buster developed by the United States during the Cold War. Deployed on Strategic Air Command bombers, the B53, with a yield of 9 megatons, was the most
1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion
…p.m. CDT on September 18, and culminated with an explosion inside the missile silo at around 3:00 a.m. on September 19. The 9-megaton-of-TNT (38 PJ) W-53 nuclear warhead was ejected and landed a short distance away and no radioactive material was lost. Launch Complex 374-7 was located in Bradley Township, Van Buren…
B53 at Pantex
Hardtack Oak nuclear weapon test.
B53 on display at the Atomic Testing Museum