Comments by "Christopher U.S. Smith" (@ChristopherUSSmith) on "When a dropped wrench nearly blew up Arkansas" video.

  1. The Atlas ICBM had a bad but well earned reputation for blowing up. The four that successfully launched the Mercury orbital flights of Glenn, Carpenter, Schirra, and Cooper were diligently prepared and monitored from manufacturing through to fueling and launch.
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  2.  @CJay_Drifter  Trident, Minuteman and Peacekeeper (MX) missiles use solid rocket motors, like those in the strap-on boosters of the Shuttle and other orbital payload launches.
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  3. As for the TO, it had only recently been changed to require a torque wrench to remove the filler cap.
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  4.  @RCAvhstape  Asteroids and Missile Command didn't come out for the VCS until 1981.
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  5.  @stephenhargrave7922  That depends on how good the tapes are, and how good the VCR mechanism is. Matsushita is a piece of crap.
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  6.  @maru5522  55 cents for a letter is not a low rate, considering how much junk mail businesses and NPOs send for less than a fifth of that per piece.
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  7. Harold Brown (the SECDEF) wouldn't initially tell VPOTUS Mondale either about the warhead, until Mondale reminded him he was Number 2 in the Chain of Comnand underneath POTUS Carter.
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  8.  @prismstudios001  SrA Powell did. However, he refused to sign the UCMJ Article 15 non-judicial punishment, and the Air Force did not take it to Court Martial, which they could have done.
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  9.  @fk4515  Powell did get an Article 15. He refused to sign it, and the Air Force did not take the case to Court Martial, which they could have.
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  10.  @fk4515  USCENTCOM was the parent command during the first Gulf War IIRC, so it wasn't just the USAF.
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