Russia Expands Underground Nuclear Command Facility in the Urals
Investigators say procurement records show at least 24 underground chambers and 2.5 kilometers between exits as Russia modernizes its retaliatory command system.
- A joint investigation published September 26 revealed Russia has massively expanded Object 1335, a deep bunker in the Ural Mountains, and reactivated its Cold War-era Dead Hand nuclear retaliation system.
- Known in Russia as Perimetr, the system was developed during the Cold War as a backup to transmit nuclear launch orders if senior leadership and communications were destroyed in a surprise attack.
- Procurement records from 2018 to 2024 show massive orders for around 22,000 tons of steel and more than 56,000 tons of cement; retired Major General V. G. Khalin wrote that the facility was placed on combat duty in 2023.
- While some experts argue the system was never fully deactivated, Stanford nuclear security expert Jeffrey Lewis told Danwatch the 'simplest explanation' is that Russia is returning Dead Hand to operation.
- Analysts suggest the move reflects President Vladimir Putin's fear of decapitation strikes, though former U.S. ambassador Steven Pifer warned that increased automation makes him 'a little bit nervous' regarding human control.
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In an isolated area of the Ural Mountains, near the village of Kîtlîm, Russia would have massively modernized one of its best guarded military complexes. It is about Object 1335, a bunker buried deep under Mount Kosvinsky, known in some reports as the "Mountain of Revelation".
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