A Chilling PBS Documentary Shows How Mistakes Are Made

President-elect Donald J. Trump stirred up the debate over nuclear weapons with a late-December Twitter post, but one aspect of that issue is rarely explored: Nuclear armaments have to be safely stored and maintained somewhere. Just why this matters is chillingly detailed in Command and Control, an episode of “American Experience” on PBS on Tuesday, Jan. 10, that recounts a 1980 maintenance blunder at a missile silo in Arkansas.