> but I think we can say that it was _designed_ to survive a nuclear strike There is a lot more to the design of 'the internet' than the selection of a packet

> but I think we can say that it was _designed_ to survive a nuclear strike There is a lot more to the design of 'the internet' than the selection of a packet switched protocol. The early boxes were not hardened in any way and were intended to support computer timesharing amongst academic researchers. The DoD's C2 providers themselves rejected the concept of a decentralised packet-switched network because 'it would never work'. Which is why the relevant theoretical papers were sitting on the shelf and available when ARPANET was designed