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How do you manage weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them?
How do you manage weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed...
Documentary - 2016
Command and Control
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September 18, 1980, 6:25 p.m., Titan II base in Damascus, Arkansas. On this fateful night an explosion kills an Air Force member and transforms the lives of everyone on the base. Honing in on a single case of so-called “human error”, Command and Control juxtaposes precision on a minute scale against the gargantuan risks inherent in the United States’ aggressive nuclear proliferation policy during the Cold War.
Director:
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Robert Kenner

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Rated:
N/A
Runtime:
92 min
Release date:
14 Sep 2016
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
2 wins.

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
A terrifying documentary that'll have your heart racing as fast as any Hollywood thriller, Kenner's film reveals that, due to a range of errors and accidents, we were very close, more than once, to detonating a nuke on our own soil.
– Tirdad Derakhshani,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
30 Sep 2016
rotten:
There's an important story to tell here, one about the risks created by the very people and things we employ to keep us secure, but not enough to fill the 92-minute runtime.
– Matthew Lickona,
San Diego Reader,
5 Oct 2016
fresh:
Robert Kenner's documentary is a reminder of how maintaining history's deadliest arsenal can put a nation in its own lethal cross hairs.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
6 Oct 2016
fresh:
The inescapable conclusion is that we have more to fear from our own human error than from our enemies' malevolence.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
6 Oct 2016
fresh:
As a child, I worried about nuclear war. It never occurred to me that I should have been worried about a nuclear accident.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
12 Oct 2016
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