Strategic Forces Command
- March 16, 2022
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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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.