Plans for Russia to cooperate with Britain to prevent a nuclear alert caused
by the millennium bug have been put on hold because of the Kosovo conflict. The
countries were to have exchanged information about early warning systems for
nuclear weapons to pre-empt any problems that might be caused by the date change
on 1 January. But a spokesman for Britain’s Ministry of Defence says that all
plans for Y2K cooperation have been “placed on the backburner for the
foreseeable future”.
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