September 12, 1954 - U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff recommend using atomic bombs on China in conflict over Chiang Kai-shek's troops on Quemoy and Matsu islands.
September 13, 1954 - Soviets mass 40,000 soldiers in two formations on plains of Kazakhstan and explode a nuclear weapon between them.
September 20, 1945 - The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff embrace "first strike" atomic warfare policy.
September 20, 1980 - A technician dropping a wrench and breaking a fuel tank causes an explosion in the silo of a Titan II Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile.
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