Nuclear Weapons in Russia: Safety, Security, and Control Issues

Abstract

When the Soviet Union collapsed in late 1991, it reportedly possessed more than 27,000 nuclear weapons, and these weapons were deployed on the territories of several of the longer Soviet republics. All of the nuclear warheads have now been moved to Russia, but Russia still has around 6,000 strategic nuclear weapons and perhaps as many as 12,000 warheads for nonstrategic nuclear weapons.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 05, 2001
Accession Number
ADA477830

Entities

People

  • Amy F. Woolf

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arms Control
  • Arms Control Treaties
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Employment
  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
  • Law
  • Nuclear Materials
  • Nuclear Warheads
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Strategic Weapons
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Fields of Study

  • Physics
  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation and International Security