IP: Russia, Y2K & NATO

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

Talk about  shooting yourself in the foot, the Russians may have done it to themselves and maybe us djf

>Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 23:23:58 -0500
>From: David Rosensweig <dlrosens@sas.upenn.edu>
>Organization: University of Pennsylvania
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>Subject: Russia, Y2K & NATO
>
>Russian military calls off Y2K cooperation
>
>The fight against the Y2K bug is an unexpected casualty of NATO's air
>strikes against Yugoslavia. The Interfax News Agency reports that the
>Russian Defense Ministry has called off cooperation with the US over the
>Y2K glitch as a protest against the air strikes. Until today, Russia's
>government was working with US experts to help fix the Y2K problem,
>which some fear could cause Russian military systems to malfunction. -
>Rebecca Jeschke, ZDTV News
>
>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/filters/bursts/0,3422,2232960,00.html
>
>also see:
>http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990326/V000990-032699-idx.html