Or so the hopeful viewer might think before seeing Command and Control, a PBS American Experience documentary now in limited theatrical release before its broadcast debut.

From Robert Kenner, the director of the groundbreaking film Food, Inc., comes Command and Control, the long-hidden story of a deadly accident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas in ...

A cautionary tale of freak accidents, near misses, human fallibility, and extraordinary heroism, “Command And Control” exposes the terrifying truth about the management of America’s nuclear ...

A riveting and dismaying documentary from director Robert Kenner about a 1980 nuclear disaster that took place just outside Little Rock.

See a clip from Robert Kenner's 'Command and Control,' which examines a deadly nuclear accident and the history of America's weapons program ...

Kenner received an Academy Award nomination for “Food Inc.” “Command and Control” will open at New York’s Film Forum on September 14 before expanding to select cities nationwide.

In theatres today (at the Nuart in Los Angeles), "Command and Control" is a new documentary looking at the risks of a nuclear weapons accident on American soil.

The new documentary Command and Control relates the both fascinating and utterly chilling chain of events surrounding the near-catastrophic explosion of a Titan-II nuclear missile in Damascus ...

At this point “Command and Control” goes back and forth between the Air Force’s attempts to deal with this crisis and other past nuclear weapons accidents.

A 1980 accident at a Titan II missile solo outside Little Rock, Arkansas is the focus of the documentary 'Command and Control.' (Courtesy PBS/American Experience) When a nuclear bomb is in danger of ...