{"id":71064,"date":"2017-07-21T06:35:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/us-nuclear-arsenal-controlled-by-1970s-computers-with-8in-floppy-disks"},"modified":"2017-07-25T06:00:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T13:00:35","slug":"us-nuclear-arsenal-controlled-by-1970s-computers-with-8in-floppy-disks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/us-nuclear-arsenal-controlled-by-1970s-computers-with-8in-floppy-disks","title":{"rendered":"US nuclear arsenal controlled by 1970s computers with 8in floppy disks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-nuclear-arsenal-controlled-by-1970s-computers-with-8in-floppy-disks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US military\u2019s nuclear arsenal is controlled by computers built in the 1970s that still use 8in floppy disks.<\/p>\n<p>A report into the state of the US government, released by congressional investigators, has revealed that the country is spending around $60bn (\u00a340.8bn) to maintain museum-ready computers, which many do not even know how to operate any more, as their creators retire.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Department\u2019s Strategic Automated Command and Control System (DDSACCS), which is used to send and receive emergency action messages to US nuclear forces, runs on a 1970s IBM computing platform. It still uses 8in floppy disks to store data.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/may\/26\/us-nuclear-arsenal-controlled-by-1970s-computers-8in-floppy-disks\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/may\/26\/us-nuclea...oppy-disks<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military\u2019s nuclear arsenal is controlled by computers built in the 1970s that still use 8in floppy disks. A report into the state of the US government, released by congressional investigators, has revealed that the country is spending around $60bn (\u00a340.8bn) to maintain museum-ready computers, which many do not even know how to operate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1490,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-government","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71069,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71064\/revisions\/71069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}