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After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviets and Americans agreed to install a \u2018hot line\u2019 between their Presidents. On 30th August, 1963, a 10,000 mile transatlantic Washington-Moscow cable went live from the Pentagon to Red Square.\nIn the public imagination (in part thanks to Kubrik\u2019s \u2018Dr Strangelove\u2019), it remains a red telephone - but it is, in fact, a pair of beige teletype machines that each required ten staff to operate.\nIn this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly explain why, prior to this, diplomacy was often being skipped altogether in favour of inflammatory radio broadcasts; consider what the messages the two nations send each other can tell us about their cultural differences; and marvel at just how much geopolitics hinges on whether two particular world leaders like each other\u2026\xa0\nFurther Reading:\n\u2022 'Hot line' between Washington and Moscow to be opened\u2019 (The Guardian, 1963): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/31/hot-line-between-washington-and-moscow-1963-archive\n\u2022 \u2018There Never Was Such a Thing as a Red Phone in the White House\u2019 (Smithsonian Magazine, 2013):\nhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-such-a-thing-as-a-red-phone-in-the-white-house-1129598/?no-ist\n\u2022 \u2018History Of The Moscow-Washington \u2018Red Phone\u2019\u2019 (NBC News, 2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR5Z8jYRyFo\nFor bonus material and to support the show, visit\xa0Patreon.com/Retrospectors\nWe'll be back tomorrow! Follow us wherever you get your podcasts:\xa0podfollow.com/Retrospectors\nThe Retrospectors are Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina & Arion McNicoll, with Matt Hill.\nTheme Music: Pass The Peas. Announcer: Bob Ravelli. Graphic Design: Terry Saunders. Edit Producer: Sophie King.\nCopyright: Rethink Audio / Olly Mann 2022.\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices