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MOSCOW, February 21 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin Tuesday Ukraine issued a nuclear warning to the West about the 2018 nuclear war, suspended a landmark nuclear arms control treaty, announced new strategic systems were on standby and warned that Moscow might resume nuclear testing.
What is Russia’s nuclear arsenal, how big is it, and who commands it?
NUCLEAR SUPER POWER
He inherited the nuclear weapons of the Soviet Union Russia It has the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear warheads.
According to the Federation of American Scientists, Putin By 2022, it controls approximately 5,977 such warheads, USA President Joe Biden and controls 5428.
About 1,500 of these warheads are operational (but probably still intact), 2,889 are in reserve, and about 1,588 are deployed strategic warheads.
According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, about 812 were in land-based ballistic missiles, 576 were in submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and about 200 are deployed in heavy bomber bases.
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USAAbout 1,644 strategic nuclear warheads have been deployed in According to the Federation of American Scientists, a total of 350 in China, in France 290 and the UK has 225 warheads.
Such numbers mean that both Moscow and Washington can destroy the world many times over.
At its peak during the Cold War, the Soviet Union had about 40,000 nuclear warheads, USAhad 30,000 warheads.
The key is how to deliver the weapon – missiles, submarines and bombers carrying warheads.
Russia has about 400 nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles and can carry up to 1,185 warheads, according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
Russia capable of carrying a maximum of 800 warheads 10 uses a nuclear-armed nuclear submarine. There are about 60-70 nuclear bombers.
NEW NUX
United States in 2022 Nuclear Posture Review Russia and that China is expanding and modernizing its nuclear forces, and that Washington will pursue an arms-control approach to end a costly arms race.
Putin He said that he has information that the United States is developing new types of nuclear weapons.
Russia is modernizing its nuclear weapons.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, according to the Arms Control Association, only a handful of countries have tested nuclear weapons: the United States in 1992, China and France in 1996, India and Pakistan in 1998, and North Korea in 2017. .
The Soviet Union last tested it in 1990.
WHO IS GIVING THE ORDER OF RUSSIA’S INVOLVEMENT?
According to Russian nuclear doctrine, the Russian president is the ultimate decision-maker when it comes to the use of Russian nuclear weapons, both strategic and non-strategic.
The nuclear portfolio or “Cheget” (named after Mount Cheget in the Caucasus Mountains) is with the president at all times. The Minister of Defense of Russia, currently Sergei Shoigu, and the General Staff chiefcurrently Valery Gerasimov is believed to have such portfolios.
Basically, the portfolio president is his senior military with the rank, and even more so, the top-secret “Kazbek” is a communication tool that connects with the missile forces through an electronic command-and-control network. Kazbek supports another system known as “Caucasus”.
Footage shown by Russian TV station Zvezda in 2019 shows what it says is one briefcase with a row of buttons. In the “Command” section there are two buttons: a white “start” button and a red “cancellation do” button. Zvezda news means that the portfolio is activated through a special flashcard.
If Russia thought it was facing a strategic nuclear attack, the president would send a direct release order to the headquarters command and reserve command units holding the nuclear codes through their portfolios. Such orders quickly download various communication systems to units of strategic missile forces, and then fire at the United States and Europe.
If a nuclear attack is confirmed, Putin could launch a system called the Dead Hand or Perimeter as a last resort: essentially computers would decide the apocalypse. The cruise missile can deliver nuclear strikes from Russia’s vast arsenal.
Reporting by Guy Foulconbridge Editing by Christina Fincher
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2023-02-21 19:22:44
Source – reuters
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