Vladimir Putin has delivered a nuclear warning to the West over Ukraine, suspending a landmark nuclear arms control treaty, and warning that Moscow could resume nuclear tests What is Russia's nuclear arsenal, how big is it and who commands it?
Russia, which inherited the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons, has the world's biggest store of nuclear warheads.
About 812 are deployed on land-based ballistic missiles, about 576 on submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and around 200 at heavy bomber bases, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Russia appears to have about 400 nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles, which the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists estimate can carry up to 1,185 warheads.
The so-called nuclear briefcase, or"Cheget" , is with the president at all times. The Russian defence minister, currently Sergei Shoigu, and the chief of the general staff, currently Valery Gerasimov, are also thought to have such briefcases.
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