GENERAL EUGENE Habiger, commander-in-chief of U.S. Strategic Command, and Colonel General Vladimir Yakovlev, head of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces, have agreed to an exchange of officers for the purpose of observing each other's nuclear command and control procedures. In a November 4 Defense Department briefing, Habiger outlined the nature of these exchanges and indicated that, on the basis of his observations and conversations with high-level Russian officials during his October 22-28 visit to Russia, he is confident that Moscow's nuclear arsenal is safe and secure.
During his trip, Habiger examined a nuclear weapons storage facility at Kostroma, a rail-mobile SS-24 ICBM …