Hawaii’s ballistic missile false alarm and a user interface failure

The people of Hawaii must have been petrified. After all, just last month, Hawaii started testing its nuclear warning sirens for the first time since the Cold War. And since then United States and North Korean leaders have been trading insults with each other about the “bigness” of their nuclear buttons.

Thankfully, the alert was a false alarm. An employee of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency had pressed the wrong button, as a spokesperson explained…

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