> The nuke was not "armed" and had lots of fail-safe devices to ensure it would never go off. Whew! Though in fairness, the rocket wasn't supposed to explode

> The nuke was not "armed" and had lots of fail-safe devices to ensure it would never go off. Whew! Though in fairness, the rocket wasn't supposed to explode in the silo either. A good book about the incident is Command and Control, by Eric Schlosser: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452798-command-and-control https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452798-command-and-cont...