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utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!houxi!houxr!pete
Mon Feb 22 19:16:54 1982
Re: Strangelove precursors - Eeeeeeee
(3) Anybody got any ideas on where the screenplay-writers got the idea
    that nuclear explosions cause telephones to go "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..."?
    Feedback?? Screams of pain from the switching equipment? The beginning
    of a recording, "the number you have reached is no longer in service..."


	- Glenn Golden

    The idea that nuclear explosions cause telephones to go
    "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..." may come from the fact that priority military
    communications lines, (I doubt if this includes an ambassador's telephones),
    are equipped with 'continuity detectors' that monitor the connections of
    the telephone channels to our major military sites all over the world.
    A bulldozer plowing through a cable is, therefore, just as destructive as a
    nuclear bomb.
    
    I understand that such a device is used on our 'MOSCOW LINK' between
    the US and the USSR.

						- Pete Costello -

    P.S. An Eloctromagnetic pulse (EMP) can be generated by a nuclear explosion
    with potentials of thousands of volts over 100's or 1000's of miles.  No
    doubt UNIX(tm) systems will go "Eeeeeeeee" then. (Not to mention all of us!)

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