On 3/5/22 4:35 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
Since 2008, the Washington-Moscow Direct Communications Link (also
known as "The Washington-Moscow Hotline") uses redundant circuits of
two satellite links and a fiber-optic cable. They use commercial
facilities for at least part of the circuits.
Past accidents have interrupted previous hotline circuits. A Danish
bulldozer operator once cut the line near Copenhagen. A Finnish farmer
once plowed it up. A fire in a Baltimore Maryland manhole took it out
of service temporarily. Yep, even the hotline experienced cable cuts.
"You laughed when I told you that backhoes would be the end of mankind".
Mike
