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US-Russia hotline, which helped world avoid destruction, turns 60
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The US-Russian hotline switched to satellite communication in 1971, adding fax capabilities in 1984 and e-mail in 2008.
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LONDON – The communication hotline between the United States and Russia is 60 years old this week.
Initially set up at the end of August 1963 at the height of the Cold War, the Washington-Moscow hotline between American presidents and their Soviet – and, subsequently, Russian – counterparts is regarded as a reason why the world averted destruction.
