Old James Bond riddle?

From James Bond in The Facts of Death:

Romanos the villain: "... A man of your expertise has probably disarmed hundreds of bombs, haven'y you? Surly you can stop a Pershing missile from launching? Do you see this panel? Inside are the launching controls, covered by a thin glass cover that serves as a safeguard...They will go off if that glass cover is broken without following a certain procedure. You must deactivate the alarm system to get to the controls... I've written down a puzzle and its answer will tell you how to disarm the alarm system. As you can see, there is no calculator, paper or instruments anywhere to help you..."

Here was the riddle.

Pythagoras was famous for his theorem that states that in a right triangle, the sum of the squares of the legs is equal to the sqyare of the hupotenuse. The Converse is also true...

Lets say that you have sides of lengths 17, 144 and 163. Does this form an acute, right, or obtuse triangle?

Pull off the red wire if your answer is "Acute."

Pull off the blue wire if your answer is "Right."

Pull off the white wire if your answer is "Obtuse."

You have 2 minutes, good luck.

We all know Bond never dies, so what did Bond do?