On his journey to BeijingRussian President Vladimir Putin was accompanied by a luggage very particular. In a video released by the press agency Ria Novostoi, the leader of Moscow is seen walking on a red carpet, heading to a meeting. Behind him, a few steps away, they proceed two officers of the navy in uniform, each holding a black briefcase.
One of these is the so-called Save, the device through which Putin can order a nuclear attack. Named after a mountain in the Caucasus, the “atomic baggage” is always within reach of the president of the Federation, but it has been years since he appeared in the room. “There are suitcases that cannot be missing from any Putin trip,” he wrote Ria Novostoi.
Rather ominously, state media showed footage of Putin followed by officials carrying the Russian nuclear football around Beijing today.
“There are certain suitcases without which no trip of Putin’s is complete,” Ria Novosti said https://t.co/B22AJQzRZ5 pic.twitter.com/IOX43drDFh
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Traditionally, the Save it is always carried by a high-ranking member of the Russian naval forces. It is essentially a communication system sure, who can connect the president with his people military leaders and with them missile forces via the secret command and control network called Kazbek. Even the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu and the head of the armed forces Valery Gerasimov I am in possession of a “doomsday briefcase”.
In 2019, Russian television Star showed theinternal of a Cheget full of buttons. In particular, in the “command” section there were two: a white one with the writing “launch” and a red one for “delete”. The briefcase, however, does not directly activate the Federation’s nuclear arsenal. In case Putin were to send the order, the General Staff should send i authorization codes to the individual commanders of the nuclear sites, who would take care of the activation procedures of the atomic warheads. There is also an alternative system, known as Perimeterwhich would allow Russian military leaders to launch missiles directly, bypassing all intermediate command posts.
The Russian briefcase works exactly like its much more famous, colloquially called American counterpart Football or, more formally, Presidential Emergency Satchel. It too is always within reach of the President of the United States when he is away from the White House. As the Saveacts as a communication system with the Pentagon, through which the leader in Washington can order a nuclear attack. The first version of the briefcase, created during the presidency of Eisenhower in the 1950scontained only a series of emergency documents, through which the number one of the United States could have ordered a nuclear attack against a enemy power.
2023-10-18 15:49:00
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