Primary purpose is to test and validate nuclear command and control and execution procedures.

Given the poor state of Russia's nuclear command and control systems, the danger to world peace would be greater than during the cold war.

Positive nuclear command, control, communications; effective nuclear weapons security; and robust combat support are essential to the overall NDO function.

Operation Silk Purse was the United States' airborne nuclear command and control mission for the European theater of operations from 1961 through 1994.

In the American nuclear command and control system, a military aide carries a similiar briefcase nicknamed "the football."

The security of the United States and the world rests with deteriorating Russian nuclear command and early warning systems.

He became an expert in nuclear engineering, spent two years as a starpom, and then received his first nuclear command.

The Strategic Rocket Forces' nuclear command and control system had been deteriorating for years due to aging infrastructure, crime, and negligence.

With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, a central nuclear command with modern communications could better prevent the misuse of nuclear weapons by the new states.

POLO HAT is an end-to-end communications exercise for United States' nuclear command and control forces.