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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 - Urban Legends

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To: Sawtooth who wrote ()2/21/1999 9:55:00 PM
From: Intrepid1  Read Replies (1) of 31
 
Urban Legend or Urban Incineration?

Yahoo! News
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Sunday February 21 4:40 AM ET

Washington, Moscow Ponder Y2K Nuclear Danger

By Adam Tanner

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United States has offered to set up a missile early-warning center with Russia from December 1999 to reduce the risk of accidental war stemming from the millennium bug,a senior U.S. defense official said Sunday.

Edward Warner, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Threat Reduction, outlined the suggestion in two days of military talks that ended Friday on how the millennium computer bug might affect Russia's nuclear arsenal.

Experts have expressed fear that the millennium bug, or Y2K problem, caused by outdated computer software that may mistake the year 2000 for 1900 could cause Russian radars to believe mistakenly that an attack was under way........

dailynews.yahoo.com

Tim, I really do hope this potential threat is just an Urban Legend.

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