So if you are like my daughter, and you haven’t heard, apparently an alert went out in residents in Hawaii via their phones that a ballistic missile was on its way, take cover, not a drill. Not long after, there was a huge … Whoops, our bad, we didn’t mean it.
Really? Come on. While I believe, more than likely it was an accident, (Clears throat - there are two people that have to activate that system) I have a couple theories about it. Please don’t pick on me or tell me to remove my tin foil hat. It’s the writer in me theorizing.
Before I get to them, I want to note that since that happened, I have been seeing posts pop up on social media. Everyone is suddenly talking about my favorite subject … nuclear war. Not that I want it to happen, I just happened to absorb all information about it. Always have. Thirty years of research. Heck, I remember the days when the world’s arsenal was 70k nuclear warheads compared to roughly 15K now. I read, went to seminars, etc. … As some of my readers know, I have fictional novels about it.
What I am also seeing it a lot of crazy talk. Things being tossed out there that aren’t scientifically based. Since Trump became president everyone talks about it, but no one knows about it. Why? It was a thing of the past. And the only information that people tend to get is what they see on drastically over done movies. It’s insane, tomorrow I will post a blog on Nuclear War Myths. Is there such a thing … yes. But onward now to my crazy theories about that alert.
THEORY ONE – HIT ME BABY
The CDC did it. Nothing screams success and press like getting lots of website hits. Some of you may or may not know but on January 16th, the CDC plans to hold a briefing on surviving nuclear war. Suddenly they feel the need to do this. The public needs educated, um, yeah, I agree. That alone is scary. What on earth does nuclear war have to do with the CDC? Still, they are holding their briefing. What better way to draw attention, to get ‘hits’ than to have a little nuclear war scare and people searching YouTube for ‘Duck and Cover’.
THEORY TWO – THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF
North Korea did it. The hacked us before they can hack us again. What if it is all an elaborate scheme and part of their grand war plan. Don’t kid yourself, Hawaii is in range of their nuclear weapons. They can only cause the most damage if they pull a Pearl Harbor. The element of a North Korea surprise is slim, but if they played on our ignorance, they stand a chance. Hack the system, send out a warning or two, people won’t panic as much the next time, after that they’ll ignore it. What better what to cover an attack, than to have people not believe you when it actually happens.
THREE – THIS IS MAJOR TOM
It really happened.
Why is that message even in the automated emergency alert message system? It’s not. It was written.
Image for a moment you are a worker in the IT department of information. (Disclosure – I’m guessing that’s what it’s called) You’re sitting there, enjoying your cinnamon bun, when all of the sudden you are told, prepare a warning, a submarine located 300 miles West of Hawaii accidentally launched an SLBM (Submarine launched Ballistic missile) in fifteen minutes it will land. You know all stops are out to halt it, but as the minutes tick down and ground zero is close, your supervisor says, ‘heck with it, send the warning’ – just in case. The bomb was intercepted, all is fine …but then … the text was sent. How do you cover … um accident.
+++EDIT - Just to be clear, I am not saying this was NK, I am saying it may have been an accident from out own or someone else.
+++EDIT - Just to be clear, I am not saying this was NK, I am saying it may have been an accident from out own or someone else.
Those are my theories.
Little note to segue into tomorrow’s blog. It won’t take 1,000 warheads to begin the downfall of civilization. All it will take is one. If this country took a nosedive financially after September 11, imagine what one nuclear warhead detonated on American Soil would do to the economy. Economy halts, infrastructure crumbles …
More tomorrow … hope you check back.
I'll go with #3, for the win, Alex.
ReplyDelete#3 The explosion would have been noticed. I think... well maybe not, the USGS fails to report earthquakes quite frequently.
ReplyDeleteI'd say#3 as well. The fact that the emergency alert system was primed with THAT MESSAGE? What about more likely threats on the ready?
ReplyDeleteI do wonder if this isn't a way to shake the population into believing the NK threat is real. This would allow the government more leeway in it's handling of the threat, moving forward.
I don't have a theory, but I do find it odd that this would only occur at "a Shift change". Why would a shift change be any different than any other time during a shift? It seems if it is software based that nothing would change or have to be changed at s "shift change". That "screen" would never have a need to be available to anyone unless it is specifically opened for a specific reason. That reason should be only to activate the warning. I don't believe for a moment that the activation screen is open at all times. If it is, well then that IS an accident waiting to happen.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't a drill. Can't say how I know.
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