It is published against the current background of a Kremlin leadership insinuating the use of nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine. This article offers an account of the events of that day. Post-1991 some information has been released but many records were destroyed and the full facts will probably never be known. The Totskoye nuclear exercise, as it is known, remained classified until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. On 14 September 1954, the Soviet leadership carried out a top secret test in the South Urals that involved dropping a nuclear bomb then ordering tens of thousands of troops to enter the area of the explosion. In his speech to the two houses of the State Duma on Friday 30 September, President Putin said the United States was the only country in the world that has used atomic weapons.
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