In the 1960s, Telegraph Poles Were Equipped With Nuclear Bomb Alarms

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> 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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