Etech, have you read the reports that claim the cell and internet system dropped out immediately after the alert was issued in Hawaii? Left everyone with NO communications for several hours.
I also wonder about their protocols. I would imagine that issuing a missile alert should not be as simple as just pushing the wrong button. Usually stuff of that serious a nature has a clearly defined procedure requiring several steps to complete the process.
"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861
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