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CIAO DATE: 06/05
Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces
Pavel Podvig
November 2001
Abstract
This encyclopedic book provides comprehensive data about Soviet and Russian strategic weapons, payloads, and delivery systems and on the nuclear complex that supports them. The data are drawn from open, primarily Russian sources. All the information is presented chronologically, arranged by individual systems and facilities, and is not available elsewhere in a single volume.
Following an overview of the history of Soviet strategic forces, the book discusses the structure of the political and military leadership in the Soviet Union and Russia, the structure of the Russian military and military industry, nuclear planning procedures, and the structure of the command and control system. It describes the nuclear warhead production complex and the Soviet nuclear weapon development program. It then focuses on the individual services that constitute the so-called strategic triad -- land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, the strategic submarine fleet, and strategic aviation. It presents an overview of Soviet strategic defense, including air defense systems, the Moscow missile defense system, the radar and space-based early warning networks, and the space surveillance system. The book also includes a description of the Soviet nuclear testing program, including information on test sites and on all Soviet nuclear tests and peaceful nuclear explosions. It concludes with a look at the future of strategic nuclear weapons in Russia.
Pavel Podvig is a Research Fellow at the Center for Arms Control Studies at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Table of Contents
List of Major Weapons Systems
Foreword
Preface
About the Authors
1. Soviet and Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces (PDF, 31 pgs, 138 KB)
2. The Structure and Operations of Strategic Nuclear Forces
3. The Nuclear Weapons Production Complex
4. The Strategic Rocket Forces
5. Naval Strategic Nuclear Forces
6. Strategic Aviation
7. Strategic Defense
8. Nuclear Tests
Afterword: Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces in Transition
Appendix: Designations of Soviet and Russian Strategic Systems
Notes
Index
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