Inside the State Department’s 24/7 Digital Peace Room
When an international incident occurs—say, a nuclear meltdown in Japan, revolution in Egypt, a SEAL raid in Pakistan, or something along those lines—the State Department knows every detail possible. How? A buzzing room of plugged-in, insomniac brains. The State Department’s Operations Center (casually called “Ops”) was first whipped together during the Bay of Pigs invasion,…