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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (12629)	6/5/1998 3:13:00 AM
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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (12629)	6/6/1998 2:55:00 AM
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US fears hail of Russian nukes if military computers crash By Jim Wolf Washington The United States is drawing up plans to keep Russia and others from being spooked into nightmare military scenarios because of the millennium bug, a top Pentagon official said on Thursday. In a stark warning about the year 2000 computer glitch, John Hamre, the deputy defence secretary, said Russian nuclear forces would have to be kept calm if the bug caused their computers to crash. He told the senate armed services committee that cash-strapped Russian forces were relying more on nuclear weapons "as a safeguard for their national security". "And their early-warning system is fragile." The systems rely heavily on computers to mesh data from satellites, radars and other sensors and are used by Russia and the US to monitor impending threats such as missile launches and unidentified aircraft. He said William Cohen, the defence secretary, had ordered plans to be drawn up for sharing early warning information so "we don't enter into a nightmare condition where everybody is all of a sudden uncertain and their screens go blank." The idea is to share data not only with Russia, the US's old cold war foe, but with other, unspecified, nations. Hamre said Russian forces lacked a programme to deal with the so-called Y2K problem the inability of many computers to interpret dates in the new century correctly. The Pentagon will have spent about $2,9 billion on the most pressing aspects of the problem by mid-1999, but still expects some "nasty surprises", Hamre said. The US and Russia each still keep about 2 500 nuclear-tipped weapons on missiles, bombers and submarines. Arms-control experts questioned whether Russian commanders would believe Washington that no attack was imminent. "If they were concerned about a Chinese attack then they might be reassured that Washington saw no such evidence," said Tom Collina, of the Union of Concerned Scientists. Reuters All Material c copyright Independent Newspapers 1998. inc.co.za