Who is taking care of the Russian nuclear weapons which have not been dismantled? Are they all locked up safely?
2007-02-23 01:01:04 · 7 answers · asked by kicking_back 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
In the 1990s the US supplied security technology and helped the Russians improve their nuclear weapons security.
2007-02-23 02:40:31 · answer #1 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stockpiled nukes are located at these storage sites:
Borisoglebsk
Bulyzhino
Chebsara
Dodonovo Krasnoyarsk
Golovchino
Karabash
Khabarovsk
Komsomolsk-na-Amure
Krasnoarmeyskoye
Malaya Sazanka
Mozhaysk
Nizhnyaya Tura
Olenegorsk
Sergiev Posad
Yuryuzan
Zalari
Zhukovka
The Russian-American Nuclear Security Advisory Council is charged with the task of nuclear safety, diversion detection and disposition of stockpiled nukes in the old Soviet Union. The deployed nukes are no longer aimed at continental US, however, it only takes minutes on a keyboard to re-target cold war targets, which did happen in 1995 when the Russian suitcase containing the launched codes was activated for the first time in history after a Norwegian scientific satellite was mistaken for a launch by NATO against Moscow.
As of 01 April 2005 Kommersant reported that the Strategic Missile Force of Russia had 496 ICBMs, including 226 silo-launched (86 heavy missiles R-36MUTTH and R-36M2 Voevoda, 10 medium missiles UR-100NUTTH, and 40 light missiles RS-12M2 Topol-M) and 270 mobile ground-launched missiles RS-12M Topol. By 2010, the Force may have no more than 313 ICBMs, including 154 silo-launched (40 R-36M2 Voevoda, 50 UR-100NUTTH, and 64 RS-12M2 Topol M), and 159 mobile ground-launched missiles (144 RS-12M Topol and 15 RS-12M1 Topol M).
As you hint in your question, there is great concern regarding the diversion of nukes or weapons grade plutonium/uranium to the black market.
2007-02-24 03:26:57 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one is really concerned. They are being sold to the highest bidder and stockpiled as the new Russian Leader is threatening to go back to cold war with us. He does not realize Russian Peoples are fed up with that cr&ap and won't take it any more. Whoever gets final control of them in Russia will be the best friend of Iran and Iraq.
2007-02-23 09:08:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
north korea took them!!! (this is not a true answer just a joke)
Maybe dismantled alreADY
2007-02-23 09:04:32 · answer #4 · answered by thenewhorzta 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They keep selling them
2007-02-23 09:08:01 · answer #5 · answered by jonah 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hell no were in trouble as soon as some arabs buy one good night
2007-02-23 09:04:52 · answer #6 · answered by trollemperor 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no they are in the hands of babys
2007-02-23 09:03:25 · answer #7 · answered by georgespindrill 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋