The crisis had left the two superpowers looking for a faster and direct link between the heads of the government because the diplomatic mode of communication tended to be tortuously slow, formal, and ambiguity ridden.
The hotline was not a red telephone on Jack Kennedy's desk so one could just lift the receiver and ask Khrushchev about the Moscow weather. It was a wired telegraph link with radio telegraph backup and teleprinters on both sides with facility for prompt translation.
Since then, more hotlines have connected the nuclear nations (Indo-Pak nuclear hotline became operational in 2004), but the thread by which the sword of a nuclear war dangles over humanity's head has become more tenuous because now more nations possess nuclear weapons and the cold war stability of the balance of power has given way to the unpredictability of a multipolar world.
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