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Red telephone
The "red telephone" was a famous hotline which linked the White House via the National Military Command Center with the Kremlin during the Cold War. It was established following an agreement on June 20, 1963 after the events of the Cuban missile crisis made it clear that reliable, direct communications between the two nuclear powers was a vital necessity.
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