B Sides Poison Seed

This is a fictionalized account of a real, terrifying event. The "cyber chef" and the "colonel" are creative license, but the climax—a silo explosion that blows the lid off and ejects the warhead—is an account of one of the most famous nuclear accidents in US history. The Story: In 1980, a maintenance crew dropped a socket wrench, which fell 70 feet and punctured the fuel tank of a Titan II missile in its silo in Damascus, Arkansas. The silo filled with fuel, exploded, and "spat its poison seed of death" (the W-53 warhead) 600 feet into the air. It landed in a ditch, cracked but (thankfully) not detonated. The final line "will it go critical in this place?" was the exact question everyone was asking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Da... (Note: all Bad Cattitude songs are AI generated.)