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The alliance’s defense chief warned earlier this week that the games appear to be ‘real preparations for big war.’ Today NATO launched the Dragon-17 war games with Poland in response. The exercise will involve some 17,000 land, air force and navy troops and 3,500 units of equipment and will run through September 29, 2017. The EAS national test in the United States will run during that time, which seems to be beyond coincidental. Furthermore, the backup EAS test scheduled for October 4th, is also beyond coincidence because NASA has scheduled a drill to see how well its planetary defense system would work if an actual asteroid were heading straight for Earth. While these sorts of drills have been done in the past with pretend asteroids, this one will feature a real asteroid; one that astronomers are confident will miss the Earth as it zooms by on October 12, 2017. The asteroid has not been seen since its 2012 discovery, when it sped past Earth at about one-fourth the distance from Earth to the moon. It’s been too distant and too faint to be detected over the last five years. The space rock measures somewhere between 30 and 100 feet long, roughly the same size as the asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 14, 2013. That asteroid showed up as NASA was tracking another near earth object labeled 2012 DA14 that made a close pass over earth. They weren’t expecting the Chelyabinsk object at all.