The HA false alarm caused by hitting the wrong button excuse is total bullsh*t, and here is why ....

[Journeyman]

3. Is it possible the alert was made on purpose, by someone intent on graphically illustrating. . .

the dangers we face in a nuclear world lead by a hair-trigger ignoramus. Not saying, just asking, and inquiring from the depths of a large dark ignorance illuminated entirely by my paranoia and the hope that someone might do something to avert our course.


I was in Minot, in '73, during the Yom Kippur War when Kissinger took us to DefCon 3 because Nixon was drunk.

Very few of my friends and family outside the military knew anything about the ramp up to confrontation.

What I learned was simple, and quite eye opening:

"In the nuclear age, the difference between the Home Front and the Front Line is simply a matter of perception: If you know we're at war, you are too."

Ultimately, all we have left is Viktor Frankl's Challenge:

"For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best. So let us be alert -- alert in a two-fold sense:

"Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake."