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Remembering the Titan Missile Disaster That Almost Was

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A Titan II ICBM in its launch silo.

In September 1980, an accident in central Arkansas put the state close to a major disaster. We remember the event through archives from KATV and Randy Dixon with the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History.

Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.
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