Russian Nuclear Weapons: Past, Present, and Future

50. For a recent statement to that effect, see, for example, a
statement of the new SRF Commander Andrey Shvaichenko:
“Udarnaya Gruppirovka RVSN Budet na 80 Protsentov Sostoyat
iz Novykh Raket,” RIA-Novosti, October 12, 2009.
51. “RF Sozdast Novuyu Tyazheluyu Ballisticheskuyu Raketu
na Smeny Kompleksu ‘Voyevoda’,” RIA-Novosti December
16, 2009.
52. “Sredstva na RVSN Sostavlyayut Okolo Treti Finansirovaniya
Yadernoi Triady,” RIA-Novosti, December 8, 2009.
53. “Raketnye Kompleksy RVSN Sposobny Preodolevat
Noveishuyu PRO SShA,” RIA-Novosti, September 10, 2009.
54. Yuri Zaitsev, “Ot RSM-40 do ‘Sinevy’,” RIA-Novosti,
March 11, 2009.
55. “Prichinoi Neudachnogo Puska ‘Bulavy’ Yavlyaetsya
Konstruktorskaya Oshibka,” RIA-Novosti, January 12, 2010.
56. Dmitri Litovkin, “’Bulavu’ Ispytayut Osenyu,” Izvestia,
May 24, 2010.
57. ‘Solomonov Obyasnil Neudachi ‘Bulavy’,” Voeno-Promyshlennyi
Kurier, No. 9, 2010.
58. “Lvinaya Dolya Buydgeta MO Idet VMF, v Osnovnom
Yadernym Silam—Ivanov,” RIA-Novosti, June 3, 2009.
59. For an overview of the aspects of major military exercises
relevant to the analysis of nuclear doctrine, see Nikolai Sokov,
‘‘Significant Military Maneuvers,’’ Part V of Issue Brief: Russia’s
Nuclear Doctrine, August 2004, available from www.nti.org/e_research/e3_55a.html.
60. “Dalnaya Aviatsiya: Perspektivy Strategicheskikh Mashin,”
RIA-Novosti, December 23, 2009.
61. ‘‘Rossiya Perenapravit Rakety’’ (“Russia Will Retarget
Missiles”), Vzglyad, February 19, 2007.
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