Why does Russia have 3 nuclear suitcases, besides Putin who are the two other powerful men used?

While the US President has only one nuclear suitcase that allows the deployment of nuclear weapons, the Russian military has up to 3 nuclear suitcases. This difference intrigues many people.

It's basically a suitcase filled with everything needed for the president to authorize and launch a nuclear attack while he's not in a designated command and control area, such as the House of Representatives. White.

The nuclear suitcase is always next to Russian President Putin.

In the United States, the president has the sole authority to launch a nuclear attack, an offensive strike or to retaliate. In the Russian Federation, the power of the president is overseen by the military in the event of a nuclear attack.

The Army of the Russian Federation has 3 nuclear suitcases, in which 3 very important Russian defense officials are used. This system is called a "triple lock" system. The first nuclear suitcase is always next to the President of Russia, currently Vladimir Putin. The Russian president's nuclear suitcase does not contain the actual nuclear key, but instead a system of boot codes.

But with presidential powers alone, Putin cannot order a nuclear attack on his own. Instead, in times of need, the presidential code should be sent to Russia's Defense Minister, currently Russian Army General Sergey Shoygu, who has held the post since 2012.

After the Minister of Defense receives the order and the activation code from the president, he will send his code and the code of the president to the Chief of the General Staff, currently General Valery Gerasimov. When the Chief of the General Staff has all three sets of codes, he can execute launch orders for missile crews.

It is estimated that the entire procedure, once started, will take about 20 minutes. This process was considered a highly classified state secret in Soviet times, and a lot of misinformation still exists around it.

Russian nuclear suitcase.

An unconfirmed rumor says that the Secretary of Defense and the Chief of the General Staff must transmit their own codes to limit unauthorized access from rebel servicemen. Another rumor says that the Chief of the General Staff also actually has the presidential code. This structure is believed to prevent the takeover of power from the office of the secretary of defense, preventing any plot against the president from infancy.

Russia's system of active control of nuclear launch is a system that has been through some trial and error. During the Cuban missile crisis, for example, the Soviet commander in Cuba had the authority to launch a nuclear attack without Moscow's permission.

Today, that power rests firmly in the hands of three longtime office workers, with a rudimentary system of checks and balances to keep one from overwhelming the others.

The three nuclear suitcases could also alert President Putin, Minister Shoygu and General Valeriy to signals of a potential nuclear attack.