Hawaii Panics After Alert About Incoming Missile Is Sent in Error<br />But Mr. Perry went on to speculate what might have happened if such a warning had come “during the Cuban Missile Crisis or a Mideast war?”<br />The United States faces an especially difficult problem today, not just because of tense relations with North Korea<br />but also because of growing fears inside the military about the cyber vulnerability of both the nuclear warning system and nuclear control systems.<br />As a chain of islands, Hawaii is subject to all kinds of threats — hurricanes, volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis — but officials have made clear<br />that none is more urgent now than the threat of an attack by North Korea, given how little time there would be between an alert and the detonation of a bomb.<br />Hawaii has been on high emotional alert — it began staging monthly air-raid drills, complete with sirens, in December — since President Trump<br />and Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, began exchanging nuclear threats.<br />By Adam Nagourney, David E. Sanger and Johanna Barr<br />An early-morning emergency alert mistakenly warning of an incoming ballistic missile attack was dispatched to cellphones across Hawaii on Saturday, setting off widespread panic in a state<br />that was already on edge because of escalating tensions between the United States and North Korea.<br />“I mean, there was no intel.”<br />At Konawaena High School on the Island of Hawaii, where a high school wrestling championship was taking place, school officials, more accustomed to responding<br />to alerts of high surf or tsunamis, moved people to the center of the gym as they tried to figure out how to take shelter from a missile.
