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In the 1960s, Telegraph Poles Were Equipped With Nuclear Bomb Alarms
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:05:59 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Suzanne Johnson <fuhn () pobox com> Subject: In the 1960s, Telegraph Poles Were Equipped With Nuclear Bomb Alarms Date: January 23, 2018 at 12:28:36 PM EST To: "DAVID J. FARBER" <farber () gmail com> ...and how that led Paul Baran at RAND to "to propose a network of distributed communication <http://www.rand.org/about/history/baran.html>—an idea that evolved into the military’s revolutionary ARPANET and matured to become the internet." https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/in-the-1960s-telegraph-poles-were-equipped-with-nuclear-bomb-alarms <https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/in-the-1960s-telegraph-poles-were-equipped-with-nuclear-bomb-alarms>
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