In mid-September 1954, nuclear bombing tests were performed in Totskoye range during the training exercise Snezhok (Snowball or Light Snow) with some 45,000 people, all Soviet soldiers and officers, who were exposed to radiation from a bomb twice as powerful as the one dropped on Hiroshima nine years earlier. The exercise was commanded by the Marshal of the Soviet Union, Georgy Zhukov. At 9:33 am on 14 September 1954, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber dropped a 40-kiloton atomic weapon from 26,000 ft. The soldiers were told that there would be a regular military exercise featuring a mock nuclear explosion and that it would be filmed. The military personnel were not issued any protective gear.
In mid-September 2012, Quantitative Easing tests were performed in the US during a panic over a collapsing economy. The exercise was commanded by Fed Chairman Ben Shalom Bernanke. At 12:30 pm on 13, September 2012 announced that the Fed would create $40 billion out of thin air each month to buy more toxic garbage from the failing TBTF banks. The citizens were told that there would be great benefits to economy from this policy such as $10 a gallon gasoline and less than zero interest rates on Certificates of Deposit.
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