Cheget
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thumb|The Russian "nuclear briefcase" from the early 1990s on display at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center in [[Yekaterinburg.]]
Cheget () is a "nuclear briefcase" (named after in Kabardino-Balkaria) and a part of the automatic system for the command and control of Russia's Strategic Nuclear Forces (SNF) named Kazbek (, named after Mount Kazbek on the Georgia–Russia border). From when it was first developed, a "nuclear suitcase" has been available to the Russian head of state, Minister of Defense and the head of the General Staff.