Quote: "The cost was justified within DoD circles by saying that ARPA was tasked with building a “survivable” network that wouldn’t go down if any specific part

Quote: "The cost was justified within DoD circles by saying that ARPA was tasked with building a “survivable” network that wouldn’t go down if any specific part was destroyed, perhaps in a nuclear attack." Oh boy, a white lie that became a truth nowadays. Internet as it stands now it's so resilient that after a full nuclear war to extinct us, a future alien specie just needs to patch a few bits at cables ends and will have Earth coverage. Internet is so resilient that look at China's great firewall effort and still dissidents can communicate with free world.