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In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
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Totskoye nuclear exercise
1954 Soviet nuclear test with soldiers
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Totskoye
Rural locality and administrative center of Totsky District, Orenburg Oblast, Russia
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