In May, the Russian Defense Ministry Special Control Service celebrates 60th anniversary. Today SSC is a unique part of the 12th Chief of the Ministry of Defense Management mills. In connection with the anniversary of the press service of the main department of defense for the first time publish footage, wherein the work presented CCK.
Press service of the Ministry:
Along with the monitoring of nuclear tests abroad Special Monitoring Service (SSC) Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is monitoring compliance with international agreements on the limitation and prohibition of nuclear weapons tests, including, It provides Russia's participation in the international monitoring mechanism of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and coordinate the activities of federal executive authorities and the Russian Academy of Sciences CTBT implementation.
Among other priority services - monitoring of seismic and radiation environment on the globe, any nuclear accidents on the territory of the Russian Federation (within the technical capabilities of controls). Also on the Service charged with participation in the conduct of geophysical monitoring over the territory of our country.
Inspection results, namely, Data about the facts and parameters of nuclear explosions and earthquakes, radioactive contamination of the surrounding space represented by the Special Control at the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation and other bodies of the military and public administration.
In order to address the challenges ahead Service provides continuous collection, processing and compilation of the geophysical environment, sets based on these facts nuclear explosions abroad, on the territory of the Russian Federation and the earthquakes on the Earth, defines their parameters.
Special Branch surveillance was established in the USSR 1954 year, a 13 May 1958 of the year – and the Ministry of Defense of the USSR Special Monitoring Service under the leadership of Colonel Alexander Ustyumenko.
