Re: Washington–Moscow Direct Communications Link

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