Hawaii False Alarm Hints at Thin Line Between Mishap and Nuclear War<br />Though he intended to deter Soviet aggression, Moscow read his threats<br />and condemnations — he had declared its government an "evil empire" that must be brought to an end — as preludes to war.<br />" Mr. Narang wrote on Twitter, adding, "Think it can’t happen?" Unlike in 1983, no one died in Hawaii’s false alarm.<br />that POTUS sees alert on his phone about an incoming toward Hawaii, pulls out the biscuit, turns to his military aide with the football and issues a valid and authentic order to launch nuclear weapons at North Korea,<br />The Interpreter By<br />MAX FISHER<br />JAN. 14, 2018<br />Nuclear experts are warning, using some of their most urgent language since President Trump took office,<br />that Hawaii’s false alarm, in which state agencies alerted locals to a nonexistent missile attack, underscores a growing risk of unintended nuclear war with North Korea.<br />Mr. Trump’s White House has issued its own threats against North Korea, suggesting<br />that it might pursue war to halt the country’s nuclear weapons development.<br />North Korea is far more vulnerable than the Soviet Union was to a nuclear strike, giving its<br />officers an even narrower window to judge events and even greater incentive to fire first.
