Originally established to effect crisis response within the UK during the Cold War era, the Emergency Communications Network (ECN) was beginning to prove somewhat cumbersome by the beginning of the new millennium. What had begun as a viable control and command structure, deemed capable of linking regional government departments in the event of a nuclear strike-notthe most unlikely of scenarios in the early 1980s-was now, quite frankly, beginning to look extremely dated. Buried beneath a jungle of telephone cables and switchboard panels lay serious concerns thatthe ECN had perhaps losttouch with the pressures and demands of coordinating disaster and emergency preparedness and national security planning in the 21st century.
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