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There's a documentary on Youtube that covers both countries.

IIRC, in Russia it affected wide-area pipelines and phone networks - systems nobody wanted to screw with.

Anyway, the tests scared both sides shitless and I think they stopped unilaterally. They expected a result of X, and instead got 100X or 1,000X.

The article didn't do justice to the severity of what happened.

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a lot is made of MAD, but it has to be remembered that both sides' own people (scientists, soldiers, generals) were largely and painfully aware that thermonuclear war would have likely been excessively disastrous, regardless of whether the other side could shoot back. This was already fairly clear after bombing Japan, to people who had the right information, but over the subsequent 20 years it became widely understood. While politicians saber-rattled, their own subordinate hierarchies often recoiled in horror. When even scientists start going "well, we probably shouldn't learn more about that", you know you're on the edge of existence.

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