It’s been a little more than a week since the state Emergency Management Agency zapped most Hawaii residents with a false ballistic missile alert. While it took about a day for everything to return to our normal state of bliss, I’ve lately become fixated on the large corporate-like boxes at the top of Lipoa Parkway in Kihei. It all started a few days after the alert, when … [Read more...] about We ask two nuclear weapons experts if Kihei would be a target in a possible nuclear war
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How we learned to stop worrying and love nuclear weapons errors
While State of Hawaii officials work to unravel exactly how and why a false ballistic missile warning alert went out on the morning of Saturday, Jan. 13, it's important that residents understand the context of the error. After all, deploying nuclear weapons in the United States dates back to the end of the World War II, and the systems designed to maintain and control them are … [Read more...] about How we learned to stop worrying and love nuclear weapons errors
President Obama goes to Hiroshima, Maui gets millions in defense funding
Today President Barack Obama made the first-ever presidential visit to Hiroshima, site of the first use of nuclear weapons in warfare. That Obama was the first president to ever visit the city–where a single American bomb killed about a hundred thousand people–betrays a great deal about how we still can't cope with the fact that the U.S. is the only nation in history to ever … [Read more...] about President Obama goes to Hiroshima, Maui gets millions in defense funding