Russia today is (and will remain for the foreseeable future) power with a huge nuclear arsenal.Nuclear weapons - not only a powerful tool arsenal of military resources in the country, but also the foundation of national security.In addition, the nuclear forces are essential as a tool for the policy of containment.
data analysis of international relations in today's world show a tendency to decrease the likelihood of a full-scale war in which nuclear weapons from the category of policy instruments can go into the category of war arguments.But, despite this, the power of nuclear weapons Russia does not lose its prime importance.At least - as a political counterweight to guarantee stability in the world and achieving geopolitical goals of the state.Nuclear weapons will always be a very serious argument foreign policy!
In the past two decades, Russia's nuclear forces have undergone a substantial and significant reduction optimization.Now Russia's nuclear arsenal were only a little over three thousand warheads.For comparison - the USSR had ten thousand charges.But even such a nuclear ammunition enough to reflect the likelihood of military threat, assured destruction theory aggressor and repeated suppression of vital centers of the probable opponent (enemy or coalition).
noting hefty exaggeration very common "horror stories", telling blood-curdling stories about the horrors of nuclear winter and devouring nuclear explosions, we must recognize that without these exaggerations nuclear forces are a kind of crowning a slender number of products created by mankind for the physical destruction of their own kind.
By and large, nuclear weapons renders meaningless the very concept of "war".Hardly any of today's politicians want the victory, the price of which - the lives of tens of millions of its own citizens, milled in the dust of the city and its poisoned for decades the country's territory.And not only the enemy!That is why nuclear weapons of Russia and the United States, balancing each other, is the guarantor of the overall stability of the world.
So, what today has in its arsenal of Russia as a "last resort of kings"?The main power and striking force of the nuclear potential of the country make up the Strategic Missile Forces.These strategic forces are constantly on alert, a 1,641 warheads on 441 medium.These (rather large) nuclear forces include 75 missiles R-36M and M2 "Voivod" (NATO SS-18).
range of the latter, is 16 000 kilometers, in fact, does not leave invulnerable and unattainable points on the earth's surface than the guaranteed certainty of retaliation strike.The value of "governor" is still in the fact that the time needed to prepare them for launch, is only three minutes, as well as the highest level of security launchers of missile systems.In addition, the "Governors" are equipped with a perfect set of breakthrough that makes them practically invulnerable to enemy missile.And the highest accuracy (deviation from the target of less than three hundred meters away) allows you to use them for a preemptive strike, and for the response action.Ten 750-kiloton warheads, which is equipped with one such rocket capable of turning in a lunar landscape of any metropolis of the world with all of its surroundings.
