Uploaded June 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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In 1951, The General Electric Company made this movie about how mobile radio could be a part of a local government’s response to a Soviet nuclear attack. Filmed in Syracuse New York, at that time the home of General Electric’s mobile radio business, it shows one of the first examples of what has evolved into the modern emergency communications systems.

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