The Center for Year 2000 Strategic Stability was a joint operation of the United States and

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designed to provide mutual assurance that neither nation was launching a nuclear first strike against the other during the transition from the year 1999 to the year 2000. The program arose out of concerns the

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might generate false positives in each nation's nuclear attack

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s. The center came online December 30, 1999 and was closed January 15, 2000. It operated from

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