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Originally posted by jaguar
Cuban missile I honestly don't know enough about to comment but there are enough lines of communication between such superpowers that I?d say it wasn?t international treaties that saved the day.
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There are such lines *now*, but the Cuban Missile Crisis is what led to the establishment of the Hotline. The *original* Hotline, a permanent teletype circuit between the Soviet and US National Command Authorities. Previous to that, it was very slow diplomatic channels, and reading subtexts of each others public speeches....a lot of posturing and mindreading. Not that that doesn't happen today too... [/b][/quote]
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