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GeekwithaGun wrote:

Flightmare wrote:

ELB wrote:One of the reasons there are two missile launch officers who both decode the launch message and have to agree on what it says is to make sure one guy doesn't brain-burp us into a war. Maybe the Hawaii emergency management people could take a hint from that.

The article said they were changing procedures to do just that. Common sense would say you would want that anyways, for the same reason as you would want 2 person agreement for missle launch. The last thing you want to do is have an oops moment.

And no plan in case an alert was sent in error

ELB wrote:One of the reasons there are two missile launch officers who both decode the launch message and have to agree on what it says is to make sure one guy doesn't brain-burp us into a war. Maybe the Hawaii emergency management people could take a hint from that.

Following standard procedures, the night-shift supervisor posing as U.S. Pacific Command played a recorded message to the emergency workers warning them of the fake threat. The message included the phrase “Exercise, exercise, exercise,” the FCC report said, but it also included “This is not a drill" -- language used for real missile alerts.

The worker who then sent the emergency alert said they did not hear the “exercise” part of the message. This person, who has not been publicly identified, declined to be interviewed by investigators, but the worker did provide a written statement, the FCC said.

According to the FCC report released Tuesday, this worker is the only one who apparently did not understand it was a drill.