TLDR: documentary about nine hours of terror that prevented an explosion 600 times more powerful than Hiroshima at Titan II missile complex in Arkansas; September, 1980.
Is that your characterization or theirs? It's been a while since I read the book, but I don't recall either that or any other source suggesting that there was at any point a serious risk of the warhead going off.
Both. Rust gives you experience with low level systems programming, Go gives you experience with network-facing backend code. Both give you concurrency.