massive panic in Hawaii- false nuclear attack alert :(

Well thank God nobody at the White House pressed the red button in retaliation

Too busy watching gorillas on TV?

I remember having similar discussions with friends during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. What’s wrong with consulting reality?

The truth is we have a mentally unstable US President, with an IQ in single figures who thinks he’s god. So we are closer to a nuclear war than ever before and those who voted him on think he’s ‘doing a good job’. Even some misguided and blinkered souls on this forum think the same.

How could the excuse be that one person pressed the wrong button?
Surely it’s not as simple as that and we’re all in the hands of a technocrat who may or may be not concentrating!!

Indeed- someone I know said 'ah well, anyone can make a mistake' !!! Surely the systems in place should require several steps or check and re-check - before the button is pressed.

And I hope certainly the case with the other button - yiiikes.

I would have thought the same jura it seems inexplicable for this to have happened without a few checks!
Poor people there, wonder it didn’t cause a few heart attacks.

exactly lemongrove- must say got quite upset today as 1 expat from UK and one from USA, who live in the safety of Switzerland (where they have nuclear bunkers for all with iodine tablets, etc) say it was 'just a storm in a teacup and they couldn't understand why people got hysterical ?!? And one of them is a father with young children

They can’t have much imagination then, can they?
I don’t know if we will get the full story of how the text came to be released, but the people there certainly need to know.