http://www.co-intelligence.org/y2k_toxics-nukes.html

hotlink please.

talk now...

-- number six (Iam_not_a_number@hotmail.com), November 13, 1999

Answers

How is this.


-- y2k dave (xsdaa111@hotmail.com), November 13, 1999.

This too.

-- mil (millenium@yahoo.com), November 13, 1999.

I got this from one of the articles at the site. Does anyone know if the Russians work the same way?

{{The most nightmarish of worst-case scenarios--a nuclear weapon exploding in its silo or a missile launching because of a Y2K failure- -is not plausible. Pals and environmental sensing devices prohibit nuclear detonation without command authorization and the proper environmental conditions.3 However, there are other, more realistic worst-case scenarios.}}

-- I sure (Do@Hope.So), November 13, 1999.

The thing I'd be most concerned about here is the Russian 'Perimeter' dead-hand system, which independently launches Russia's entire missile arsenal automatically if it doesn't receive a regular computer-generated pulse from Moscow.

The rationale appears to be 'No pulse - no Moscow. Time to get that retaliatory strike away.'

Given the woeful state of Russian electrical and telecommunications preparation, this is a real concern. The Russian's would be ultra-reluctant, I would think, to switch this system off...

-- John Whitley (jwhitley@inforamp.net), November 13, 1999.