Question by Lisa B: How did the United States and the USSR communicate before the Moscow-Washington Hotline?
I’m writing an essay on Soviet- American communication before and after the Cuban Missile Crisis, and I just need some guidance as to what I should research about Soviet-American communication before the hotline was installed. Thanks!
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Answer by flazatty
The hotline was established during or immediately after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Prior to that time, each country would send the other a coded message that had to be decoded and translated by the receiving end. In the case of lengthy messages, this took several hours, and it was feared that misunderstandings might arise without quicker communication. The initial hotline was a system that would allow each leader to send the message in his native language, and the system would decode and translated the message automatically, so that it was immediately usable at the other end.
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