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After the launch of sputnik by the Russians the Department of Defence tasked the Defence Advanced Research Project Agency(DARPA) to create a means of communication in the post nuclear fallout scenario where the government could still be organized after a massive nuclear assault on the United States homeland. The advancement of the internet was a reaction to the possibility of the Russian launching Nucelar weapons from space at the American homeland.

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