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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (7971)8/13/1999 9:14:00 AM
From: long-gone   of 9818
 
Reuters </other/> ú UPI </other/upi/>

U.S., Russia urged to lower missile alert for Y2K

Updated 6:53 PM ET August 12, 1999
By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Citing the risk of an accidental nuclear war, activists are pressing the United States and Russia to take nuclear missiles off hair-trigger alert during the technology-challenging year 2000 rollover. A network of international groups announced a drive this week to try to persuade President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin to "stand down" the approximately 2,500 nuclear-armed missiles now poised on each side for immediate firing. Standing down the missiles means adding steps before they can be fired. The idea is to give commanders more time to make sure they are acting on solid information, not scrambled data caused by a computer glitch. Rep. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, introduced a sense of the Congress resolution last week calling for the "de-alerting" of as many U.S. nuclear weapons "as is feasible and consistent with national security." "Today the Russian command-and-control system is decaying," Markey said. He said the so-called Y2K bug in computers not programmed to recognize the year 2000 made the date change a particularly dangerous period.(cont)
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They want us to stand down so China can simply walk in?
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