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Russia Won't Cooperate on Y2K Bug
By CHRIS ALLBRITTON
AP Cyberspace Writer
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558953674-444
NEW YORK (AP) _ In another show of protest over the fighting in
Kosovo, Russia's Defense Ministry said Friday it will stop
cooperating with the United States on the Y2K computer problem. A
ministry spokesman made the announcement to a government committee
that is tackling the problem, the Interfax news agency said.
In Washington, Sen. Robert F. Bennett, chairman of the Senate Special
Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem, urged Russia to
reconsider.
``I think it's very shortsighted and potentially dangerous,'' he
said. ``It doesn't mean something bad is going to happen. But it
means that our chances of preventing something bad from happening
just went down.''
Western defense officials have been working with Russia on upgrading
its computers for fear that the cash-starved country has not done
enough to tackle the millennium bug. Some fear that faulty computers
could trigger false alarms on Russia's nuclear early warning systems.
Accidental launches of nuclear missiles are highly unlikely, experts
in both countries said, but they urged extra precautions until the
computer problem is fixed.
``The potential for nuclear accident is very small, but the thing
we're finding here is that Y2K problems can kick off human errors,''
Bennett said. ``The best way to make sure some human doesn't make a
mistake because of Y2K is mutual and open dialogue.''
As part of the effort, the two countries had planned to station
experts in each other's nuclear facilities in the months before and
after Jan. 1, 2000. The program was to be mostly U.S.-funded.
The Y2K bug occurs because many computers programmed to recognize
only the last two digits of a year won't work properly beginning Jan.
1, 2000, when machines will assume it is 1900. Some computers can be
reprogrammed, but many devices have embedded microchips that must be
replaced.
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