Ravings From The Rubber Room (2)
A mid-winter mini-heatwave tied or broke lengthy-standing high temperature records throughout no less than three states on January 19, based on preliminary experiences from the Nationwide Climate Service (NWS). The sixty five° at Omaha completely crushed the earlier record for the date of 60°, which dated back 119 years to 1895. Omaha is without doubt one of the authentic official Weather Bureau observing sites whose climate historical past started in 1871. An 1895 document also fell at Lincoln, the place it was 66°.
Another excuse for the Hotline not being for phone conversations was of technical nature: in the sixties it was hardly attainable to realize voice encryption sturdy sufficient for top stage communications. From the mid-seventies some better techniques have been developed, but these had been secret nationwide algorithms, which in fact could not be shared with the Soviets. Unclassified commercially available voice encryption was hardly secure.
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