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Image 5 - The Red Telephone - "The famous 'Red Telephone' - key to the primary alerting system in SAC Headquarters underground command post -rests on the desk of the senior controllers. By picking up this phone, the controller can be placed in instantaneous voice contact with every SAC command post at bases throughout the world." Photo taken circa June 1959. (Box 434)

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