The link became operational on 13 July 1963 and was principally motivated as a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis where it took the US, for example, nearly 12 hours to receive and decode the initial settlement message that contained approx.
该链路于1963年7月13日开始运行，主要是因古巴导弹危机中美国所面临的问题，例如需要12个小时才能接收和解码最初的约3000词的信息。