#4 - RW 267
RUSSIAN NUCLEAR ARSENAL IS COMBAT READY

SAROV (Nizhny Novgorod region), July 31 /from RIA Novosti's special correspondent/ - At the Russian president's meeting with researchers of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center Aleksander Rumyantsev, Atomic Energy Minister Aleksandr Rumyantsev said "Russia's nuclear arsenal is combat ready, its most recent armaments are capable of overcoming different land-based systems.

While talking about the center, the minister indicated that it was the country's strategic wealth. The center develops most modern types of armaments to ensure Russia's security, emphasized the minister.

Rumyantsev indicated that the last nuclear tests in the country took place in 1990. Nuclear tests being banned, modelling plays an important role in maintaining nuclear parity in the world, he said. The center is therefore equipped with supercomputers and unique stands.

In his turn, academician Viktor Mikhailov, the center's scientific director, said Atomic Energy Ministry experts had accumulated huge experience in ensuring safety of the most sophisticated technological systems. The academician stated that the center "is prepared, in addition to routine nuclear research activities, to ensure safety of technical systems in the gas, oil and petrochemical industries."

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