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   MISSILE DEFENSE : SOFTWARE RELIABILITY
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National Missile Defense: The Trustworthy Software Argument -- William Yurcik  -- The CPSR Newsletter  -- March 01, 2001

The National Missile Defense (NMD) system being developed by the U.S. revisits many of the technical software engineering arguments surrounding the failed Strategic Defense Initiative.

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Star Wars: When imperfect man strives to make perfect machines -- Harvey Newquist  -- Computerworld  -- November 30, 1987

The author wonders if we should trust computers with missile defense when they are consistently unreliable for far simpler tasks.

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Can Computers be Fail Safe? -- Stan Augarten  -- PC Magazine  -- January 14, 1986

A scathing critique of the U.S. defense department's ambitious claims to be able to develop a reliable software infrastructure for the "Star Wars" missile defense program.

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