Training fallout shelter10/15/2023 (Pro Tip: Whatever you do, please don’t ever put your children down a sewer manhole, and don’t do a TikTok or Instagram live about it. Getting a vague text message that says “seek shelter” isn’t very helpful, since people may not know what counts as a safe shelter, and those who are caught in the open may not know what to do if shelter isn’t anywhere nearby. ![]() The question you must ask yourself and your family is if you were, at a moment’s notice, given a warning that Hawaii was under nuclear attack, would you know where to go, or know what to do? Sadly, the end of the Cold War has made it so most people today know very little about survival tactics – after all, the last time Oahu faced an imminent threat was in 1968 when a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine sunk in nearby waters. While nobody has suggested that Hawaii faces an imminent threat, these are unpredictable times that we are living in, and traditional international norms, as well as public expectations of normalcy that we have come to rely upon for decades, are no longer predictable. This is an issue that we need to be talking about and preparing for, especially since in recent weeks we have seen Russia making nuclear threats over Ukraine and North Korea once again testing ballistic missiles in the Pacific. Laugh at our outgoing governor all you like, but the sheer panic and chaos among locals that happened during the 2018 false alarm says less about Ige and more about how, in our post-Cold War world, many people just wouldn’t know what to do in the event of a nuclear attack. ![]() ![]() David Ige leaves office, some critics will continue to jab at him for the 2018 North Korean missile alert false alarm in which he said he forgot his social media passwords and couldn’t tell locals in a timely manner that the warning was in error.
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