Strategic Forces Command

Subject: Defence & Security

Section: national organisation

Context- A missile accidentally misfired from Indian soil landed in Pakistan.

Concept-

About Strategic Forces Command:

The Strategic Forces Command (SFC), sometimes called Strategic Nuclear Command, forms part of India’s Nuclear Command Authority (NCA).
It is responsible for the management and administration of the country’s tactical and strategic nuclear weapons stockpile.
It was created on 4 January 2003 by the Vajpayee Government.
Air Marshal Teja Mohan Asthana became its first commander-in-chief.
It is the responsibility of the Strategic Forces Command to operationalize the directives of the NCA under the leadership of a Commander-in-Chief who is a three-star rank officer.
It will have the sole responsibility of initiating the process of delivering nuclear weapons and warheads, after acquiring explicit approval from the NCA.
The SFC manages and administers all strategic forces by exercising complete command and control over nuclear assets, and producing all contingency plans as needed to fulfil the required tasks.