Paul Baran and the Origins of the Internet | RAND

RAND researcher Paul Baran developed a solution that has evolved into one of the major technological innovations of our time.

Paul Baran and the Origins of the Internet Article Mar 22, 2018 Paul Baran presents his work at a RAND Alumni Association event on July 25, 2009 Photo by Diane Baldwin/RAND In 1962, a nuclear confrontation seemed imminent. The United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) were embroiled in the Cuban missile crisis. Both were in the process of building hair-trigger nuclear ballistic missile systems. Each country pondered post-nuclear attack scenarios. U.S. authorities considered ways to communicate in the aftermath of a nuclear attack. How could any sort of "command and contr

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