Cuban+missile+crisis+hotline

Cuban missile crisis hotline =The Cuban Missile Crisis Hotline= The creation of the hotline had one pure purpose. That purpose is to allow for quick and easy communication between President Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in situations of emergency. The need for better communication Both sides had recognized that the apparent lag in time when communicating that had quickly escalated their situations in Cuba so in in June 20 1963 Kennedy suggested the idea of the hotline and Khrushchev readily agreed to it.

First Use
The hot line was used for the first time during the Six-Day War in 1967, where the United States backed Israel while the Soviets supported the Arab nations.

The Next Advance
A direct line, using two satellite systems and an undersea cable, was finally established during the 1970s to more solidify this concept. The original hot line was, in fact, not a telephone but a teletypewriter, however the messages still had to be translated and transmitted by operators which took time but was drastically improved from before when they had to wait to send letters back and forth not knowing if a letter could have been on way to explain a situation or not. Which eventually led to a nuclear test-ban treaty on August 5, 1963 and the removal of nuclear weapons from Cuba.