who decided not to return after the operation was complete, were provided with newly built four-room furnished houses near the Samarka river or obtained financial compensation. A few days afterwards, Soviet scientists received detailed reports on the test and began to study the impact of the nuclear blast on model houses, shelters, vehicles, vegetation and experimental animals affected by the explosion. On 17 September 1954, the Soviet newspaper Pravda published a report on the exercise: "In accordance with the plan of scientific and experimental works, a test of one of the types of nuclear weapons has been conducted in the Soviet Union in the last few days. The purpose of the test was to examine the effects of nuclear explosion. Valuable results have been obtained that will help Soviet scientists and engineers to successfully solve the task of protecting the country from nuclear attack". The results of the exercise were discussed at a scientific conference at the Kuybyshev Military Academy in Moscow and served as the basis for the Soviet program of defense against nuclear warfare. See also List of nuclear weapons tests of the Soviet Union Desert Rock exercises, the United States's closest counterpart. References "Nuclear Testing in the USSR. Volume 2. Soviet Nuclear Testing Technologies. Environmental Effects. Safety Provisions. Nuclear Test Sites", Begell-House, Inc., New York, 1998 A.A. Romanyukha, E.A. Ignatiev, D.V. Ivanov and A.G. Vasilyev, "The Distance Effect on the Individual Exposures Evaluated from the Soviet Nuclear Bomb Test in 1954 at Totskoye Test Site in 1954", Radiation Protection Dosimetry 86:53–58 (1999) online abstract In the zone of nuclear blast (Russian) by General of Aviation Ostroumov Truth about the testing site of death (Russian), a publication by Moskovskii Komsomolets External links Witness of the nuclear explosion (memoir by Valeriy Astafiev about Totskoye nuclear exercise), in Russian Explosions in 1954 1954 in military history Russian nuclear test sites 1954 in the Soviet Union Soviet nuclear weapons testing Orenburg Oblast Human subject research in Russia Soviet military exercises September 1954 events in Europe