so far. If it was a stupid error on the part of someone, we should already know that. Otherwise, this is very worrisome.

That would be absolutely the worst possible reason, I think.

There was lots of speculation that Trump was itching for war with North Korea over the past several months, which would be be catastrophic, of course. But it would also have taken the focus off of Dolt 45's various other issues and agenda failures.

However, things took a turn for the better recently with reduced North Korean missile tests and diplomatic talks with South Korea.

The impetus for war has been greatly diminished. BUT, if the Pentagon created this nuclear missile false alarm on the president's order and then that is blamed on North Korean hacking. Hmm.

I generally eschew the conspiracy theorists but I wouldn't put that one past desperate Donald.

Which was the first thing I thought of: please make this a dumb human error story and not the alternative.

Then there are total f&$k ups. Someone needs to be fired- no one should be in this position of power who can’t handle it.

In light of all the issues with the 🍊 one and North Korea there is no acceptable margin of error.

someone pushed the wrong button.

Sounds like they need a serious look at some sort of interlock for that button, eh?

and maybe a termination of an employee?

There should be some sort of safeguard over that button, but apparently not.

They'd better be.

of Far-Out Space Nuts.

I want to see the person who made the mistake named in a report.

Will that be the excuse given when we launch WMD? "We pushed the wrong button?"

What rank sends that alert? Who gives the order to send that alert?

I have more questions...

A big boo boo.

BS.

the fact that their system was hacked. They would rather have you believe it was a simple mistake rather than people realize their shyster is vulnerable to hackers.

I've been there.

do you have any proof of what you claim?

Standards appear to vary widely.

not opinions, guesses, or feelings

I've got some beachfront in AZ to sell you.

Crap - MS Word asks me if I really want to delete that file before it initiates! We're supposed to believe there's no failsafe?

It's Russia. I'm sure of it.

Perhaps he thinks that his"Shithead" controversy has gone on far to long.

can't happen? It's a good thing Orange Foolius was out golfing instead of fondling his Big Button...

I suspect that changes will be made instanter...

Our Hawaiian friends spent 38 minutes in terror.
And it only takes 20 minutes for a missile to fly from North Korea.

Someone will be on the unemployment line, I'm certain.

This kind of thing happening is really bush league. It is an illustration of how poor emergency planning really is. Whoever designed the alert system has very poor knowledge of implementing safeguards against false alarms.

It would be unbelievable, except stuff like this happens all the time. Poor planning.

Hawaiian Islands are pretty spread out.

It shouldn't be, but it certainly is.

You know those digital road signs on trailers that get put out to warn drivers of hazards? They're incredibly easy to hack. All you need is the portable programming device used to program them. While the sign can be password protected, typically they are not, which means that anyone can change the message on them if they have one of those programmer devices. And those are available for separate purchase.

Russia and North Korea are beating us with cyber attacks. I think they even made our navy ships collided. Not to mention our elections. But we will keep building ships and planes that will be made useless from cyber technologies . My two cents.

The first design assumption is that nobody would push that button by mistake. The second assumption is that you would want easy access to that button to avoid any delays in case of a missile attack.

then you've got to doubly careful what you say and what buttons you push;

or lack thereof..