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The US spends over a billion dollars each year to assure that decommissioned Russian nuclear weapons don't fall into the wrong hands. Recently, Russian scientists discovered several flaws in the database software that the US lends to Russia to track it's weapons and nuclear materials. The US has been using this accounting software to track it's own nuclear weapons and materials for a few years now.

Surprisingly, a Slashdot author debunks the inference, made in the Washington Post, that it's Microsoft's SQL Server or NT that's to blame.

Posted by Pace Arko on July 11, 2001 12:45 PM

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