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The 'nightmare scenario'
Sanders, Kevin | March 15, 1999 issue

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The article presents information on Y2K computer problems. Despite desperate efforts to correct the monumentally short-sighted failure to program the world's computers and computer chips with complete data codes, some disruption is now inevitable when the clocks ticks over at midnight at the end of the year. Most worrisome, because of their vast potential for destruction, are the world's nuclear weapons arsenals and nuclear power plants. For if the network of interconnected systems collapses and cascades into systemic infrastructure failures, power and communications could be lost worldwide.

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YEAR 2000 date conversion (Computer systems); INTEGRATED circuits; SOFTWARE maintenance; NUCLEAR power plants; COMMUNICATION; POWER resources
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