One day in a storage facility in Little Rock,
during a routine maintenance check, an airman
accidentally dropped a six-pound socket
wrench—and pierced a hole in a nuclear warhead.
In this heart-thumping documentary,
Robert Kenner (“Food, Inc.”) plunges viewers
inside a US missile facility in 1980, where the
Titan II—a weapon more powerful than all the
bombs dropped in WWII combined—sat idly,
until all hell broke loose. Skillfully interweaving
reenactments and riveting interviews with
witnesses and former crew, “Command and
Control” explores the devastating fallout of
a simple accident, one that could easily happen
any day of the year. It’s a bracing look at
the potentially deadly consequences that can
come from even the smallest of human errors
as our ever-increasing nuclear arsenal leaves
us more exposed to disaster than ever.
In Person:
Director Robert Kenner.
