Nedelin Disaster - Sad and Easily Preventable

[Feuer Frei!]

Pretty chilling reading about one of the World's lesser known Disasters in the Nuclear Age:

On October 26, 1960, the Soviet newspapers published a short communique from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet of Ministers of the USSR informing that Marshall of Artillery Mitrofan Nedelin has died in the airplane crash. No details about the accident or names of other victims have been released

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/r16_disaster.html