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In this undated photo, Allan Childers, second right, poses with others on a Titan II missile crew at Damascus, Ark. Childers was deputy commander of the crew in 1980, when an airman performing maintenance in the missile silo dropped a socket that pierced the rocket’s fuel tank. The accident triggered an explosion 10 hours later, throwing a 9-megaton nuclear warhead into a ditch 200 yards away. PBS’ American Experience series will show the documentary “Command and Control” on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/US Air Force via American Experience-WGBH)

In this undated photo, Allan Childers, second right, poses with others on a Titan II missile crew at Damascus, Ark. Childers was deputy commander of the crew in 1980, when an airman performing maintenance in the missile silo dropped a socket that pierced the rocket’s fuel tank. The accident triggered an explosion 10 hours later, throwing a 9-megaton nuclear warhead into a ditch 200 yards away. PBS’ American Experience series will show the documentary “Command and Control” on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/US Air Force via American Experience-WGBH)

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