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]
^"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.
^"Приключения ядерного чемоданчика" [The Adventures of the Nuclear Suitcase]. 6 June 2014. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
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...
pocket that can hold a pistol. Russia's "nuclear briefcase" is code-named Cheget. It "supports communication between senior government officials while they...
Donguzorun (Russian: Донгузорун, Донгузорун-Чегет-Карабаши́, Georgian: ბაბისმთა, Babis Mta) is a peak in the central part of the Main Caucasian Range....
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Yeltsin, who was notified and the "nuclear briefcase" (known in Russia as Cheget) used to authorize nuclear launch was automatically activated. Russian satellites...
Russian nuclear forces went on high alert, and the "nuclear briefcase" (the Cheget) was taken to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who then had to decide whether...
carry out the coup. At 8:00 am, the Soviet General Staff ordered that the Cheget briefcase controlling Soviet nuclear weapons be returned to Moscow. Although...
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missile. In response, Russian President Boris Yeltsin was summoned and the Cheget nuclear briefcase was activated for the first and only time. However, the...
his office extinct, and handed over its powers, including control of the Cheget, to Russian president Boris Yeltsin. That evening at 7:32, the Soviet flag...
unified combatant commands. United States portal Nuclear technology portal Cheget, the Russian counterpart Continuity of government Emergency Action Message...
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in the world, collapses. Gorbachev hands over the nuclear briefcase, the Cheget, to the new Russian President Boris Yeltsin. 1991 – December 30 – The Commonwealth...
then leading the first group of American skiers and ski writers to ski at Cheget, in the Caucasus mountains near Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain on the...
particular republic.[citation needed] February 20 - At the foot of Mount Cheget, Kabardino-Balkaria, it was reported that Russian security forces defused...
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