After the emergency and the panic caused by the false alarm, that there was a nuclear missile on its way to Hawaii, the finger pointing and blame game began. Whose fault was it? Who needed to be accountable?
Naturally people were upset for all the right reasons: They thought they had but a few minutes of Life left to live. You can imagine the panic and confusion.
It was a mistake, it turns out, an error. Someone pushed the "wrong button."
Such incidents unfortunately have happened before. In those cases nuclear catastrophe was imminent, and was not a "false alarm."
Usually it is kept very quiet, and the Hawaii incident is no different. What has not been mentioned are the disastrous and catastrophic effects that I can only surmise, occurred not just in Hawaii, but in the rest of the world, as that unfortunate incident was unfolding.
Nuclear "mistakes" do not happen in a vacuum.
We are prone to believe that the nuclear warning mistake was contained to Hawaii, but that unfortunately, even if you prefer believing in Santa Claus, is not the case. Nuclear warnings and alarms, by design, trigger potentially catastrophic responses and actions that can be devastating to the entire planet.
A perceived threat against U.S. territory or an ally, will set in motion sets of predetermined actions that will trigger massive defensive and offensive actions by our forces internationally in response to the threat.
Additionally this also triggers massive defensive and offensive actions by our allies, and by our adversaries and enemies internationally.
A flock of geese crossed into the U.S. from Canada, for example, last century, and the NORAD early warning system "read" those geese as missiles instead of as a jet. That radar system was programmed to exclude jets, airliners, and other planes by detecting them as "air breathers," with engines that pulled in air in the front and let it out the back. It was programmed to detect "non-air breathers," which would be, missiles.
That system read the flock of geese as missiles, and it set off alarms immediately. The early warning system did its job. It warned our military, not that an attack was imminent, but that it was in progress. It had read that missiles had been launched and they had crossed into our air space, and nuclear bombs would be exploding imminently. Of course that was horrifying news to all who experienced the alarm.
But that was not all there was to be horrified about.
That system also triggered the U.S. response to the perceived "attack." You see, the response to the "attack" meant that OUR missiles would now be launched against our perceived attacker, the Soviet Union, Russia and its allies in Eastern Europe, so you can imagine the "pucker factor" in Russia, when their surveillance revealed that we had initiated our response to attack them.
Very astute and rapid communications between the Soviets and the U.S. halted the aggression on both sides, and we squeaked out of that fiasco within seconds of our total demise. That incident had prompted the Russians to begin THEIR defense measures also. According to sources we came less than a minute away from all out nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which would have also included the involvement of allies and foes, Europe, Britain, China, etc. Such a nuclear exchange would have destroyed much if not all of Life on Earth with the resulting holocaust of radiation.
That was not the only "close call," during the Cold War. There were others that have been revealed, such as the one during the Cuban Missile Crisis, in which a Soviet Captain of a submarine, ready to launch a nuke at a U.S. ship was stopped by Russian officer aboard that outranked him. That was at a time, when the Soviets and the Americans were on nuclear hair-trigger alert in that confrontation just off our southeastern shore.
There was another "lucky intervention," by a U.S. spy embedded in the Soviet forces, who alerted the Americans to refrain from certain actions that were going to cause the Soviets to launch a nuclear attack against the U.S. because they believed the U.S. was preparing to launch a first strike against them.
These near-fatal catastrophic incidents point to questions that must be asked, in light of the false alarm in Hawaii. Those questions are:
* Is there more to that incident in Hawaii than we have been led to believe?
* Is the political blame game, the accusations and counter-punches that are occurring via the media, a ruse to cover up what actually happened?
* Was there actually a missile launched at Hawaii that sensors detected that caused the alarm?
* If there was actually a missile, was it actually shot down?
* If there was a missile en route to Hawaii, did our defenses work as they should have?
* Did we actually avert a nuclear war by creating a narrative that this was only a mistake by a technician, thereby preventing a devastating retaliation, possibly against China, North Korea, and Russia?
* Did the perceived attack trigger our mainland national defenses?
* If our national defense actions and responses were triggered, did that affect our adversaries and enemies?
* Were our adversaries and enemies caused to be on alert due to our defenses being activated?
* Did our adversaries and enemies arm themselves and initiate retaliation procedures as a result of our defenses being activated?
* Would not an adversary or an enemy take preemptive measures and initiate defensive measures until they knew for certain that the incident in Hawaii was not a pretext by the U.S. to launch a first strike nuclear attack against North Korea or another enemy?
* Was this actually an incident of our systems of alert being hacked by an enemy to cause us to launch an attack against an adversary or an enemy?
* If that was the case, who hacked us and how will we respond to that attack?
These are not rhetorical questions. These are questions we should be asking and demanding answers from our elected officials, our representatives, and from our government employees.
Why are we (are you?) so easily satisfied with the quick answer that a lowly technician simply pushed the wrong button; that the alert was cancelled; and that everything is now hunky-dory?
Or is the prospect of raising these issues too scary to confront?
Usually it is kept very quiet, and the Hawaii incident is no different. What has not been mentioned are the disastrous and catastrophic effects that I can only surmise, occurred not just in Hawaii, but in the rest of the world, as that unfortunate incident was unfolding.
Nuclear "mistakes" do not happen in a vacuum.
We are prone to believe that the nuclear warning mistake was contained to Hawaii, but that unfortunately, even if you prefer believing in Santa Claus, is not the case. Nuclear warnings and alarms, by design, trigger potentially catastrophic responses and actions that can be devastating to the entire planet.
A perceived threat against U.S. territory or an ally, will set in motion sets of predetermined actions that will trigger massive defensive and offensive actions by our forces internationally in response to the threat.
Additionally this also triggers massive defensive and offensive actions by our allies, and by our adversaries and enemies internationally.
A flock of geese crossed into the U.S. from Canada, for example, last century, and the NORAD early warning system "read" those geese as missiles instead of as a jet. That radar system was programmed to exclude jets, airliners, and other planes by detecting them as "air breathers," with engines that pulled in air in the front and let it out the back. It was programmed to detect "non-air breathers," which would be, missiles.
That system read the flock of geese as missiles, and it set off alarms immediately. The early warning system did its job. It warned our military, not that an attack was imminent, but that it was in progress. It had read that missiles had been launched and they had crossed into our air space, and nuclear bombs would be exploding imminently. Of course that was horrifying news to all who experienced the alarm.
But that was not all there was to be horrified about.
That system also triggered the U.S. response to the perceived "attack." You see, the response to the "attack" meant that OUR missiles would now be launched against our perceived attacker, the Soviet Union, Russia and its allies in Eastern Europe, so you can imagine the "pucker factor" in Russia, when their surveillance revealed that we had initiated our response to attack them.
Very astute and rapid communications between the Soviets and the U.S. halted the aggression on both sides, and we squeaked out of that fiasco within seconds of our total demise. That incident had prompted the Russians to begin THEIR defense measures also. According to sources we came less than a minute away from all out nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which would have also included the involvement of allies and foes, Europe, Britain, China, etc. Such a nuclear exchange would have destroyed much if not all of Life on Earth with the resulting holocaust of radiation.
That was not the only "close call," during the Cold War. There were others that have been revealed, such as the one during the Cuban Missile Crisis, in which a Soviet Captain of a submarine, ready to launch a nuke at a U.S. ship was stopped by Russian officer aboard that outranked him. That was at a time, when the Soviets and the Americans were on nuclear hair-trigger alert in that confrontation just off our southeastern shore.
There was another "lucky intervention," by a U.S. spy embedded in the Soviet forces, who alerted the Americans to refrain from certain actions that were going to cause the Soviets to launch a nuclear attack against the U.S. because they believed the U.S. was preparing to launch a first strike against them.
These near-fatal catastrophic incidents point to questions that must be asked, in light of the false alarm in Hawaii. Those questions are:
* Is there more to that incident in Hawaii than we have been led to believe?
* Is the political blame game, the accusations and counter-punches that are occurring via the media, a ruse to cover up what actually happened?
* Was there actually a missile launched at Hawaii that sensors detected that caused the alarm?
* If there was actually a missile, was it actually shot down?
* If there was a missile en route to Hawaii, did our defenses work as they should have?
* Did we actually avert a nuclear war by creating a narrative that this was only a mistake by a technician, thereby preventing a devastating retaliation, possibly against China, North Korea, and Russia?
* Did the perceived attack trigger our mainland national defenses?
* If our national defense actions and responses were triggered, did that affect our adversaries and enemies?
* Were our adversaries and enemies caused to be on alert due to our defenses being activated?
* Did our adversaries and enemies arm themselves and initiate retaliation procedures as a result of our defenses being activated?
* Would not an adversary or an enemy take preemptive measures and initiate defensive measures until they knew for certain that the incident in Hawaii was not a pretext by the U.S. to launch a first strike nuclear attack against North Korea or another enemy?
* Was this actually an incident of our systems of alert being hacked by an enemy to cause us to launch an attack against an adversary or an enemy?
* If that was the case, who hacked us and how will we respond to that attack?
These are not rhetorical questions. These are questions we should be asking and demanding answers from our elected officials, our representatives, and from our government employees.
Why are we (are you?) so easily satisfied with the quick answer that a lowly technician simply pushed the wrong button; that the alert was cancelled; and that everything is now hunky-dory?
Or is the prospect of raising these issues too scary to confront?
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