This guy is dead.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/health/24radiation.html

Actually, if you look at the author's work, he's been covering radiation overdose all year.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b...

Oh, oh! I tried to find a book I have with the Therace-25 case study. If I recall, race conditions tripped the integer byte datatype and fired radiation at that point in time.

Ten years later, I've meant to finish the book. It's in a box somewhere.