Episode 9 - Networking for a Nuclear War, the Soviets
Advent of Computing
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E S S and the Internet
E s s was a roughly dcentralized net. Kerkevik proposed that all existing communications, be that phone calls, telegraph, radio or t v broadcasts, be digitized and sent over the network. The use of this was very explicit, to send nuclear launch codes for the event of nuclear war with the united states. It was planned to have priority levels for data that was transferred on the network,. meaning that a higher priority message could be jammed through over low priority traffic.
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