Real quick post just to set a reminder of recent nuclear threats briefly taken seriously.
image from The New York Times
April 16, 2018: DEFCON - upgraded to 4
https://defconwarningsystem.com/
- Did anyone think, that upon canceling a threat in Hawaii a couple of months ago, the DEFCON level would be set to 4.
- NOTE: The DEFCON Warning System makes no claims of interacting with government entities. However, the Hawaii incident mentioned below involved federal authorities, a U.S. senator, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, and the governor.
January 18, 2018: Hawaii - canceled missile alert
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/after-hawaii-false-alarm-what-is-the-federal-governments-responsibility-in-nuclear-attack-alerts
December 2017: The United Nations has been relatively quite. Its last nuclear shout out was back in December
http://www.newsweek.com/un-secretary-general-nuclear-war-climate-change-766913
November 2017: Funny thing is, Hawaii had brought back a Cold War era alert system two months prior to the event on January 18th
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/us/hawaii-nuclear-korea.html
Here is a link to the 2018 Global Nuclear Landscape:
https://www.defense.gov/portals/1/features/2018/0218_NPR/img/Global_Nuclear_Landscape_2018_Final.pdf
Assistant Secretary of Defense administrative map:
https://www.acq.osd.mil/ncbdp/nm/
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