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Communications and Emergency Planning During the Cold War

It was “strictly confidential”, obviously. Top secret. Yet during the years of the Cold War, some of Denmark’s sharpest minds were busy preparing the country’s telecommunications for the possible event of a nuclear apocalypse. If Denmark was attacked with nuclear weapons, the Post and Telegraph Service and the private telephone companies – in conjunction with NATO and the Danish Military and Civil Defence –were expected to ensure the continued functioning of vital government communications. A new research project at the Danish Post & Tele Museum will delve into the country’s telecommunications emergency planning during the formative period from 1945 to 1990. 

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Troubling telegrams in a troubled time

One hundred years ago, in the summer of 1914, Europe exploded into war and millions of soldiers plunged into a hellish, muddy battlefield with trenches, machine-guns and barbed wire. Yet World War One was also a war of communications – and a global struggle to gain control over the electrical flows of information. 

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Museum Monitors School Classes

Watch this headline on the front page of your tabloid. It may very well be true with the launching of the new educational offer from Post & Tele Museum. Because we go beyond telling about surveillance - we even perform it.  

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Telephone Tapping in the 1930s

The debate on telephone tapping began in the 1930's when the state really began to listen in - however, only with some trouble as the instruments crackled and the signal was weakened when the police intruded on the line. In those days as well as now the tapping represented a democratic dilemma. 

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Who is monitoring you on Facebook?

You have no influence on the surveillance which the authorities have allowed, but there are other areas in which you can make a difference. An example is the very popular Facebook. 

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A Telephone Book with Real Leaves

Alternative exploitation of articles for everyday use takes place from time to time. Here we present a literary example from the infancy of the telephone. 

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