In 1998, General Lebed said one of his assignments was to account for 132 suitcase-size nuclear weapons that the Soviet Union had manufactured during the seventies and the eighties, of which he could only find 48 (84 missing).  “We do not know what the status of the other devices is, we just could not locate them….”

General Lebed, Former Russian National Security Advisor, later recanted this story and then reinstated it with different numbers.

Currently, the actual numbers of the missing suitcase nukes are uncertain.