Red Alert: The Story of Silo 374-7

By Rebecca Weissman

On a quiet night in September 1980, a routine maintenance error at a Titan II missile silo near Damascus, Arkansas, triggered one of the most serious nuclear-related accidents in American history. What followed was a harrowing series of decisions, failures, and heroism that revealed the hidden dangers of the Cold War's most powerful weapons.

Red Alert: The Story of Silo 374-7 uncovers the full story of the Damascus explosion, from the missile's design and deployment to the split-second choices that defined the crisis and the long shadow it cast on American defense policy. Drawing from survivor accounts, declassified documents, and years of research, this compelling narrative explores how a dropped tool nearly led to catastrophe and how the lessons of that night still resonate in today's world of aging arsenals and evolving threats.

This is not just the story of a missile. It is the story of the people who maintained it, the town that lived beside it, and the enduring question: Could it happen again?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F53J8XP9
• ISBN13: 9798280063334
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"