A matter that has become topical again in recent weeks... A short history of the so-called "hot line", a communications system that linked the leaders of the erstwhile USSR and the US, set up in the aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis, to reduce the possibility of an "accidental" nuclear war between the two superpowers. The hot line came into being one year after the ... Read full entry
“The Hot Line”; for use in the event of a Cold War
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 2 September, 2008 to the comment subset
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