1. France

2. Russia

3. United States
    Contents  Operation 

4. Briefcases in fiction
    Film 

5. See also

6. References
    Literature 

7. External links

A nuclear briefcase is a specially outfitted briefcase used to authorize the use of nuclear weapons and is usually kept nearby the leader of a nuclear weapons state at all times.

France

In France, the nuclear briefcase does not exist officially.^[1] A black briefcase called the "mobile base"^[2] follows the president in all his trips, but it is not specifically devoted to nuclear force.{{cn|date=January 2019}}

Russia

Russia's "nuclear briefcase" is code-named Cheget. It "supports communication between senior government officials while they are making the decision whether to use nuclear weapons, and in its own turn is plugged into the special communication system Kazbek, which embraces all the individuals and agencies involved in command and control of the Strategic Nuclear Forces." It is usually assumed, although not known with certainty, that the nuclear briefcases are also issued to the Minister of Defense and the Chief of General Staff of the Russian Federation.^[3][4]

United States

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Operation

Briefcases in fiction

Cinema and literature have approached this subject several times, notably:

Film

• The Dead Zone (1983);

Johnny Smith, while shaking the hand of Greg Stillson — a candidate for the post of the United States senator — during an electoral meeting, in the prophetic vision of Stilson, became president of the United States, launching a nuclear attack against Russia, scanning the palm personally on a computer terminal to validate the launching of missiles;

• Swing Vote (2008);

The incumbent president attempts to impress a key voter by letting him hold the nuclear football.

• Deterrence (1999);

Fictional President of the United States Walter Emerson uses his nuclear briefcase in this movie to authorize a nuclear attack on the city of Baghdad.

• Salt (2010);

in the end of the film, the president of the United States reacts to a war threat with Russia by speeding up the force of nuclear weapon, but the system is taken in hostage by a Russian mole infiltrated within the CIA;

• Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
• The Rise of Cobra (2013)
• Scorpion S1E15 (2015); A team must return a "football" stolen sixteen years earlier in the course of surgical operation. The pirates had already tried to launch a strike using an American nuclear silo based in Iceland, but they failed.
• The Fate of the Furious (2017)

See also

• Letters of last resort – (United Kingdom)

References

Literature

• Langelot et la Clef de la guerre, a children spy novel by Vladimir Volkoff.

The key commanding the firing of nuclear missiles is stolen from the President of France.

External links

• [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/coldwar/shatter031598a.htm Shattered Shield. Cold-War Doctrines Refuse to Die] By David Hoffman, Washington Post, March 15, 1998

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