Totskoye Nuclear Exercise Area

Russia / Orenburg / Totskoye /
 military, nuclear testing area, proving ground
On 14th September 1954 the Soviet army conducted a nuclear military exercise to explore defensive and offensive warfare during nuclear war. The exercise, under the code name "Snowball", involved an aerial detonation of RDS-4 nuclear bomb as powerful as the two bombs used in the American nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totskoye_nuclear_exercise
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Coordinates:   52°36'19"N   52°48'2"E
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