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When a MiG 25 Foxbat defected from the Soviet Union to Japan in September
1976, a person I knew had chaired a NATO conference on the electronics
that were found within the avionics. Apparently there was some chuckling by
the attendees when it was revealed the Soviets were still using valves.
However, the chuckling suddenly stopped when this person I knew, who was a
semiconductor physicist, then told the audience that such technology would be
inherently radiation hardened.
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