emergency call from the Pentagon: Only one out of seven of the famous “red phones” from the time of the Cold War from the year-2000 problem affected. The Clinton administration is the enemy of the past are no software available, with which the problems can be solved, assured Deputy Defense Secretary Edward Werner.

In mid-September, the two nuclear powers had agreed that Russian officers spend the infamous New Year’s Eve on a military base in Colorado. This should ensure a “seamless communication” for the case of a false start of former Soviet carrier rockets. At the beginning of the Russian Defense Ministry had announced that only one fifth of the military systems was prepared for the leap into the new millennium.

The “red phones” were taken at the height of the Cold War in the early sixties in operation. Their meaning they have not lost eight years after the collapse of the Soviet Union: “A secure communication between the U.S. and Russia will always have top priority, even over the millennium beyond,” said Warner.

More on the Year 2000 problem is a special-mediated ZDNet on race against time, which is updated constantly.

emergency call from the Pentagon: Only one out of seven of the famous “red phones” from the time of the Cold War from the year-2000 problem affected. The Clinton administration is the enemy of the past are no software available, with which the problems can be solved, assured Deputy Defense Secretary Edward Werner. In mid-September, [...]

emergency call from the Pentagon: Only one out of seven of the famous “red phones” from the time of the Cold War from the year-2000 problem affected. The Clinton administration is the enemy of the past are no software available, with which the problems can be solved, assured Deputy Defense Secretary Edward Werner. In mid-September, [...]

emergency call from the Pentagon: Only one out of seven of the famous “red phones” from the time of the Cold War from the year-2000 problem affected. The Clinton administration is the enemy of the past are no software available, with which the problems can be solved, assured Deputy Defense Secretary Edward Werner. In mid-September, [...]

emergency call from the Pentagon: Only one out of seven of the famous “red phones” from the time of the Cold War from the year-2000 problem affected. The Clinton administration is the enemy of the past are no software available, with which the problems can be solved, assured Deputy Defense Secretary Edward Werner. In mid-September, [...]

emergency call from the Pentagon: Only one out of seven of the famous “red phones” from the time of the Cold War from the year-2000 problem affected. The Clinton administration is the enemy of the past are no software available, with which the problems can be solved, assured Deputy Defense Secretary Edward Werner. In mid-September, [...]

emergency call from the Pentagon: Only one out of seven of the famous “red phones” from the time of the Cold War from the year-2000 problem affected. The Clinton administration is the enemy of the past are no software available, with which the problems can be solved, assured Deputy Defense Secretary Edward Werner. In mid-September, [...]

emergency call from the Pentagon: Only one out of seven of the famous “red phones” from the time of the Cold War from the year-2000 problem affected. The Clinton administration is the enemy of the past are no software available, with which the problems can be solved, assured Deputy Defense Secretary Edward Werner. In mid-September, [...]