SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
A few minutes ago, phones across Hawaii received the above emergency alert about a "ballistic missile threat inbound," but according to state officials it isn't true. US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii's [governor] David Ige and the state's Hawaii Emergency Management Agency all chimed in on Twitter to confirm the alert is false. It took 38 minutes before a second alert reached phones, confirming that the first one was a mistake.
Honolulu police confirmed in a post that "State Warning Point has issued a Missile Alert in ERROR!," while Buzzfeed reporter Amber Jamieson tweets that one EMA employee said it was a part of a drill. US Senator from Hawaii Brian Schatz said the "inexcusable" alert "was a false alarm based on a human error" while the National Weather Service called it a "test message."
The governor said on CNN that "It was a mistake made during a standard procedure at the change over of a shift, and an employee pushed the wrong button."
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/13/hawaii-missile-eas/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @03:05AM (2 children)
I always kind of saw NK as not a real threat. The elite in Russia could have survived a full exchange and the country is large enough that there should still be some usable land, NK on the other hand would be completely destroyed if we had an exchange and they would get little out of it but a couple minutes satisfaction. That Hawaii feels the situation is dire enough to have this in place is a sign that the powers at be are concerned, or are at least being paid enough by defense contractors to feign concern.
(Score: 2) by stormwyrm on Monday January 15 2018, @03:41AM
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @03:45AM
Tell that to the South Koreans, the Japanese, and to everyone else that has to live through the resultant nuclear famine that comes from taking nuclear weapons lightly.