In the UK windows will now control thermo-nuclear ICBM's

[Paul Taylor]

I saw a program on History Channel about steal technology and when they
showed a British (or Scandinavian country ship) stealth ship from the
'Captains' point of view it looked like Windows desktop was running on one
of the monitors. 

-----Original Message-----
From: kclug-bounces at kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces at kclug.org] On Behalf Of
Brian Densmore
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 3:32 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: RE: In the UK windows will now control thermo-nuclear ICBM's

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hutchins
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 22 September 2004 01:11 pm, jeffslists wrote:
> 
> > This sure is scary.  I didn't think the Brits were that stupid.
> 
> > OSS torpedoed: Royal Navy will run on Windows for Warships
> > 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/06/ams_goes_windows_for_warships/
> 
> We have Windows running Nuclear Power Plants (remember the Big 
> Blackout?) and nuclear weapons.  Why should the Brit's fall behind?
No we don't. Windows may be utilized ***in*** nuclear power plants, but the
actual control of the plants is by highly specialized software and hardware,
and there's no way you're going to convince me that tactical weapons are
using windows. I used to do MILSPEC electronics and I've never seen anything
that even hinted of DOS never the less Windows being used. Besides Windows
would never have the response time necessary to do the course corrections
needed for tactical weapons. I will say that this article is very scary
indeed, but not knowing what the UKs CMS controls it is hard to say what the
risks are. I find highly improbable that Windows is being used for
targeting, tracking or control mechanisms in these warships.
But if it is, they have serious trouble ahead for them. But then these are
the same people that forgot to thaw their chicken before shooting them at
train windows.

£0.02,
Brian
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