Review of "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety", by Eric Schlosser. Looks like an interesting read.
The Tyee – Nuclear Weapons: Forgotten, But Not Gone (The Tyee)
Damascus is a very small rural town in central Arkansas. In mid-September, 1980, it came close to vanishing in a nine-megaton nuclear explosion -- not because the Russians had attacked it, but because a U.S. Titan II missile, sitting in its silo near Damascus, suffered minor damage that caused it to explode.