Putin's nuclear threats: Reuters revealed that weapons of mass destruction of the Russian Federation

On Wednesday, March 13, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West in an interview with the news agency "RIA Novosti" that Russia was technically ready for nuclear war, and that if the United States will send troops to Ukraine, this step would be considered as a significant escalation of war. The number of nuclear warheads in Russia is about 5580 units.

Among them: from the accumulated warhead of the Russian Federation launched about 1710 strategic: during the Cold War the USSR had a peak number of nuclear warheads - about 40 thousand, and the USA - about 30 thousand.

According to the nuclear doctrine of 2020, Russia can use nuclear weapons: in the review of nuclear policy in 2022, the United States has stated that Russia and China are expanding and modernizing their nuclear forces and that Washington will maintain an approach based on weapons control to prevent expensive arms.

"Although Russia's nuclear statements and threatening rhetoric are of serious concern, the nuclear arsenal and the operations of Russia have changed little since the estimates of 2023, except for current modernization," the Federation of American scientists (FAS) said at the same time. At the same time, Fas notes that in the future, the number of warheads assigned to the Russian strategic forces may increase by replacing missiles with a single warhead with a dividing warhead.

According to Putin, Russia will consider the possibility of testing nuclear weapons if the United States has similar tests. In 2023, the Russian dictator signed a law on the withdrawal of ratification of the Treaty on a comprehensive ban on nuclear testing, which was signed by the Russian Federation in 1996 and ratified in 2000. The United States signed this document in 1996, but has not yet ratified it. Post -Soviet Russia did not test, and the USSR did this for the last 1990.

At the same time, according to the Arms Control Association, after 1991, only a few countries tested nuclear weapons: the final person who makes the decision on the use of nuclear weapons is the President of the Russian Federation - the so -called "nuclear suitcase" or "Cheget", named after The Mohett Mountains in the Caucasian Mountains, always with him. It is also believed that such "suitcases" have Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoig and the head of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov.

"In essence, suitcase is a means of communication that connects the president with the highest military leadership, and then with missile troops through the Kazbek Electronic Command and Control Network,-explains Reuters. If you believe the personnel of the Russian TV channel" Star ", Reuters writes, "Cheget" has many buttons. In the section called "Team" there are two buttons-"Launch" and "Cancel". A suitcase is activated by a special flash card.