U.S. Investigating Computer Exports To Russian Nuclear Weapons Labs (1997)

Arms Control Org ^ | March 1, 1997 | Howard Diamond

[Sawdring]

ANXIOUS TO test the safety and reliability of its nuclear arsenal without nuclear testing, Russia has acquired five American made supercomputers, according to Russia's Ministry of Atomic Energy (MINATOM).

The acquisitions of the supercomputers for use in simulating nuclear explosions were deliberately publicized at a January 13 press conference by the head of MINATOM, Viktor Mikhailov. Russia claims to have four Silicon Graphics "Power Challenge L" deskside servers, together capable of more than 4,400 million theoretical operations per second (MTOPS), and one IBM Corporation RS 6000 SP system capable of 10,000 MTOPS.

Russian attempts to buy similar machines directly from IBM and the Convex Company, a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard, were turned down in October 1996 by the Commerce Department as inconsistent with U.S. export control policy. Official U.S. policy is not to provide either classified information or supercomputers to Russian stockpile security efforts.

The Gore Chernomyrdin Commission's Energy Policy Committee has held four meetings since December 1995 where U.S. and Russian experts have conferred on scientific cooperation related to maintaining the safety and reliability of nuclear arsenals under the terms of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). During the commission's eighth meeting in February 1997, collaboration on three joint projects was agreed to under the conditions that the scientists only work with unclassified information and on issues not directly tied to the development of nuclear weapons.

[Sawdring]

The way back machine starring the Clintons and the Russians!

[DIRTYSECRET]

U mean like Loral?

[pepsionice]

Let us remember how the Clinton administration arranged the first sale of Cray computers to China, and how the Pentagon fought tooth and nail to prevent that from happening.

[mj1234]

yep- a true traitor - or should I say TRAITOR’s!

Bill also gave $BILLIONS to the Norks-

( as a side note- this article was pretty funny-
talking about WORKstations- being super computers-
The Russians could get dozens of these by shipping the parts thru diplomatic pouches if they wanted- HELL the
CLINTOOOOONS probably helped fill the bags-in return
for “cattle future’s info”)

LOL/sarc

[GOPJ]

Russia has acquired five American made supercomputers, according to Russia's Ministry of Atomic Energy (MINATOM).

Ahhh, the 'Clinton/Russia' connection the DC pedophiles weren't concerned with... Guess the 'State Department' was all in and NOT caring... how perplexing?