After all, the Soviet strategic rocket forces are responsible for space launch operations.

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The strategic rocket forces, which control nuclear warheads, have listed more of their sites, and security should be reinforced at these by 2008.

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Nikolai Solovtsov, chief of the Strategic Rocket Forces, told a Russian press agency that the exercise will involve launches of "several" intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).

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