Thank You Mr Baran
"According to the NYT, Baran wanted to build a “distributed communications network,” which was less open to attack than conventional networks. He thought that networks should be designed with “redundant routes” so that if one path failed or was destroyed, messages could still be delivered through a similar path."
"This sounded like a crazy idea, and in fact, AT&T insisted it wouldn’t work when Baran approached the company with the idea in the mid-1960s. In 1969, the Defense Departments’s Advanced Research Projects Agency built the Arpanet, which included Baran’s ideas. Packet switching is still a main part of the Internet’s internal workings."
www.geek.com/articles/news/paul-baran-packet-switching-dies-84-20110328
Nice to see the non-innovation tradition in big companies is not new.
And WW3 would have probably been a limited exchange, hence it would have survied