Sentences with phrase «missile alert in»

Investigators are blaming human error for the panic - inducing false missile alert in Hawaii last month.

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Panic and confusion in Hawaii lasted more than half an hour Saturday morning, after an alert was pushed to people's phones warning of an incoming «ballistic missile threat.»

His comments came after Hawaii issued a false missile alert that provoked panic in the US state and highlighted the risk of an «accidental nuclear war» with North Korea, a point made in the Pope's «state of the world» speech.

The Reuters news agency reported that the issue of North Korean missile tests had been discussed at a security meeting in Tokyo but did not put its military on a higher alert status.

Nuclear experts are warning, using some of their most urgent language since 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.

The utter confusion and ill - preparedness that was evident in the aftermath of Hawaii's mistaken alert about an incoming North Korean missile highlighted the irresponsible and dangerous abandonment of civil defense preparedness throughout the nation.

And the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola, Florida, is using his ideas to build vests that will tickle pilots to alert them to other planes or incoming missiles.

5 lessons from the Ballistic Missile Alert in Hawaii On Saturday, January 13th, 2018 citizens of Hawaii had a big scare when a false alert went out over thousands of phones claiming a nuclear attack was imminent.

Let's just say that a Hawaii missile alert was no way to start our day in Hawaii.

The hearing, which featured members of Hawaii's congressional delegation and witnesses from FEMA, the FCC and the Department of Defense, focused on the false missile alert broadcast throughout Hawaii in January.

Rosenworcel will note that the plan in Hawaii, where a false missile alert was sent earlier this year, was over a decade old.

SCHATZ READY FOR MORE ALERTS LEGISLATION — Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz told a field hearing in his home state of Hawaii Thursday he's preparing «companion legislation» to his ALERT Act, a bill to make missile alerts a federal government responsibALERTS LEGISLATION — Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz told a field hearing in his home state of Hawaii Thursday he's preparing «companion legislation» to his ALERT Act, a bill to make missile alerts a federal government responsibalerts a federal government responsibility.