Cheget

The Russian "nuclear briefcase" from the early 1990s on display at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center in Yekaterinburg.

Cheget (Russian: Чегет) is a "nuclear briefcase" (named after Mount Cheget [ru] in Kabardino-Balkaria) and a part of the automatic system for the command and control of Russia's Strategic Nuclear Forces (SNF) named Kazbek (Казбек, named after Mount Kazbek on the Georgia–Russia border).[1] From when it was first developed, a "nuclear suitcase" has been available to the Russian head of state, Minister of Defense and the head of the General Staff.[2]

  1. ^ "О дискуссии по поводу планов создания ОГК ССС: Не все так однозначно - комментарий И.В. Сутягина" [On the discussion about the plans to create OGK SSS: Not everything is so simple - comment by I.V. Sutyagin]. Archived from the original on 25 December 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2008.
  2. ^ "Приключения ядерного чемоданчика" [The Adventures of the Nuclear Suitcase]. 6 June 2014. Retrieved 25 January 2023.