Command and Control
How do you manage weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them?
Directed by Robert Kenner
Produced by GBH, Robert Kenner Films
A tense, intellectually rigorous documentary that reconstructs a near-catastrophic nuclear accident to interrogate the systemic fragility and existential stakes of Cold War weapons management.
September 18, 1980, 6:25 p.m., Titan II base in Damascus, Arkansas. On this fateful night an explosion kills an Air Force member and transforms the lives of everyone on the base. Honing in on a single case of so-called "human error", Command and Control juxtaposes precision on a minute scale against the gargantuan risks inherent in the United States' aggressive nuclear proliferation policy during the Cold War.
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