The Office of Oversight of Government Affairs indicates that the system of command and control Pentagon operates ICBMs works with an IBM Series / 1 dating from 1976.
United States still uses floppy disks designed in the ’70s to coordinate some of the functions of its nuclear force, according to a report released Wednesday by the Office Oversight of Government Affairs.
the system of command and control of the Pentagon that coordinates the operational functions of the nuclear forces of the country, such as intercontinental ballistic missiles, atomic bombs, and aircraft support tanks they are an IBM Series / 1 using diskettes eight inches, according to the report operated.
This type of computer was first used when he ruled President Gerald Ford in 1976.
“This system remains in use because, to be brief, it still works,” said Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Valerie Henderson, the news agency AFP.
the report also details that system I outdated cost the government 60,000 million to keep operating and many experts do not even know how it can be operated if its creators retire.
in addition, the Office of Supervision of government Affairs indicates that “replace parts of the system is difficult because they are obsolete”.
the Pentagon has already announced that it expects to update the system by 2020 and that the use of diskettes culminate in 2017.
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