Telecommunications

An entire web site could be devoted to Cold War-era communications, in fact there is at least one such site:
http://coldwar-c4i.net/

We have started to document Cold War-related comm sites, See links above.

The photo below of a nuclear-hardened satellite dish shows the lengths that the military went to do protect their Command, Control and Communications infrastructure.

In Connecticut there were a number of cold-war related communications facilities, many of them initially owned by A.T.T. and constructed in part to support the government's Autovon network.

Cheshire

Durham

Glastonbury

Meriden

New London

Waterbury

Winsted