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Implementation of the "red telephone” between US and Soviet governments

61
years ago

20 June 1963,

Implementation of the “red telephone”, direct contact line between the US and the Soviet Union. Following the Cuban missile crisis, it was a direct teletype of communication between the two powers to reduce the risk of nuclear war. It was used to send encrypted telegraphic messages.

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