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To: Bobby Yellin who wrote (15213)	8/3/1998 2:37:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 116762

OT - 'Tracking Weapons at Home, Abroad By Stephen Barr Monday, August 3, 1998; Page A10 The Pentagon's planning for the new millennium includes numerous checks to track the safety of U.S. nuclear weapons and early-warning satellites -- systems that are heavily dependent on computers. But the Defense Department continues to fret over how Russia, China and former Soviet republics will react if their own computer systems crash. U.S. armed forces are developing a plan this summer to share information with Russia and other countries "so that we do not enter into the nightmare condition where everybody is all of a sudden uncertain and their screens go blank. That would be a very worrisome environment for all of us," Deputy Defense Secretary John J. Hamre recently told the Senate Armed Services Committee. The Pentagon probably will have to set up an "international focal point for sharing early warning and, for example, missile launch information, in this period of time," Hamre said. ... washingtonpost.com