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So a test drill went wrong. It makes sense to have drills right now, India (tests with war against China and Pakistan), China (Telling their soldiers to be pre
by MollyR 9y ago
So a test drill went wrong.
It makes sense to have drills right now, India (tests with war against China and Pakistan), China (Telling their soldiers to be prepared to die for China), Russia(tests against Nato), and North Korea (getting ready for war with the US) are all having military tests for basically what will quickly become another world war.
We are really at a big crossroads as a large amount of people are rejecting globalization in many different countries. And with such major powers willing to fight hard for resources like Ukraine, South China Sea, Oil Eu pipelines, and not even mentioning the increasing gulf between various countries on core ideologies and creeds.
We really are at a new and dangerous crossroads.
- maxerickson 9y agoHawaii started 6 months ago though: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/07/21/hawaii-rolling-out-civil-defense-plan-for-north-korean-missile-attack/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/07/2...
- Lunar_Lamp 9y agoI'd argue it makes sense to have test drills simply because the system exists: much like backups need testing, so do emergency systems. I'm not sure that the current state of the world should influence whether or not the systems are tested.
- major505 9y agotests and training shold be done ever as possible. But in times like now, that war seens more iminent than ever it would make sense intensifing this tests.
- monochromatic 9y agoWas this a test drill? I haven’t seen anything stating that.
- runesoerensen 9y agoThe article seems to have been updated recently to include more information about this "drill": - Officials said the alert was the result of human error and not the work of hackers or a foreign government. The mistake occurred during a shift-change drill that takes place three times a day at the emergency command post, according to Richard Rapoza, a spokesman for the agency. - In Washington, Lindsay Walters, a deputy press secretary, said that President Trump had been informed of the events. “The president has been briefed on the state of Hawaii’s emergency management exercise,” she said. “This was purely a state exercise.”
- jhayward 9y agoIt wasn't a test drill, it was a system test. Like a heartbeat test. The test message is automatically processed by the downstreams as a test.