responsibilities. Large organizations must develop procedures and practice their implementation, adjusting plans as experience with actual disasters dictates. In this regard, experience with recent disasters will help provide a blueprint for developing future contingency plans. Finally, as a truly practical endeavor the NCS should commission the analysis of scenarios that postulate the destruction of a megaswitch and enumerate the steps that would be currently undertaken to restore communications along with the problems that would likely be encountered, including estimates of costs, time required to restore communications, the level of the restoration, telecommunications service priority adherence, and network management obstacles.

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New York Times. 1988. Breach reported in United States computers. April 18.

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