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Pentagon Delegation to Discuss Y2K in Russia
http://www.russiatoday.com/rtoday/news/07.html
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 1999 -- (Agence France Presse) A Pentagon
delegation headed to Moscow Tuesday for talks on the year 2000 (Y2K)
computer problem with the Russian military as well as other defense
issues, Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said.
The Pentagon has offered to cooperate with the Russians on the Y2K
problem, amid U.S. concerns that Russia's nuclear command and
control systems could be vulnerable to the so-called millennium bug.
Washington has proposed sharing missile early warning data with
Moscow as one way to counter misunderstandings that could arise from
computer failures when the year 2000 rolls in.
Bacon said the delegation led by Ted Warner, assistant secretary of
defense for strategy and requirements, will hold talks on
U.S.-Russian military relations while in Moscow, including the Y2K
issue.
It also will join in meetings in Moscow of a U.S.-Russian Strategic
Stability Group headed on the U.S. side by Deputy Secretary of State
Strobe Talbott, which also will take up Y2K problem. ( (c) 1999
Agence France Presse)
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