This video is from SDPB's Dakota Life which is celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2022. Watch this episode and all past seasons here.
On December 5, 1964, a retrorocket fired on a Minuteman missile at Site Lima-02, three miles southeast of Vale, South Dakota. The nuclear warhead was dislodged and fell approximately 75 feet to the floor of the silo. This unique story tells a first-person account of the disaster and recovery of the warhead.