Hawaii False Alarm Hints at Thin Line Between Mishap and Nuclear War
Though he intended to deter Soviet aggression, Moscow read his threats
and condemnations — he had declared its government an "evil empire" that must be brought to an end — as preludes to war.
" Mr. Narang wrote on Twitter, adding, "Think it can’t happen?" Unlike in 1983, no one died in Hawaii’s false alarm.
that POTUS sees alert on his phone about an incoming toward Hawaii, pulls out the biscuit, turns to his military aide with the football and issues a valid and authentic order to launch nuclear weapons at North Korea,
The Interpreter By
MAX FISHER
JAN. 14, 2018
Nuclear experts are warning, using some of their most urgent language since President Trump took office,
that Hawaii’s false alarm, in which state agencies alerted locals to a nonexistent missile attack, underscores a growing risk of unintended nuclear war with North Korea.
Mr. Trump’s White House has issued its own threats against North Korea, suggesting
that it might pursue war to halt the country’s nuclear weapons development.
North Korea is far more vulnerable than the Soviet Union was to a nuclear strike, giving its
officers an even narrower window to judge events and even greater incentive to fire first.