The Emergency Internet Bunkers

Barence writes "Should the Doomsday Clock ever strike midnight, we may well discover, finally, whether or not the internet really could survive a nuclear conflict. If it could, then a handful of datacenters dotted around the world would likely be all that remains of the multi-billion-dollar hosting industry. These secretive, high-security sites, tunneled out of mountains or housed behind the blast-proof doors of one-time NATO bunkers, are home to the planet's most secure hosting providers. This article profiles the emergency internet bunkers."

Comments

Uh, what?

[ChinggisK]

FTA:

In 1949, the Soviets tested their first atomic bomb, and they pushed the clock to 23:57. A year later, the US did the same – so the clock ticked on to 23:58.

Uh, I thought the US tested their first atomic bomb in 1945?

Re:Uh, what?

[Anonymous Coward]

A simple wikipedia lookup of the doomsday clock:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock

shows how inaccurate that statement is. It wasn't a year later. It was 4 years later. And it wasn't the US testing an atomic bomb, it was the US and the Soviets testing thermonuclear devices.

When an article begins with such obvious errors I have little inclination to continue reading.

Re:Not really nuclear war proof

[mickwd]

Not if they took out twitter.

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[Dynamoo]

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