Don't be alarmed - National Emergency Test on all mobile phones beginning 2:18 Wednesday Oct 3rd

Is he still living in exile in Taiwan or something?

 

I hear about articles detailing loss of internet, text and other services to wireless phones after this test for hours.

Both of our phones, one is a modern andriod on a government landline service (Free to us) and the other is a older flip. Neither one got anything but the satellite and radio certainly did, minutes after 1:18 our time more like 1:26 for Satellite and 1:28 for radio give or take a little bit.

I don't think this would have any value. Consider Guam. They have a blue phone in a particularly secured room of their civilian leadership. That phone ties into the US Military, probably at the local base there which is protected by THAAD among other things. If the Norks launched as they threatened to, it's 18 minutes by missile, and the phone would have rang approc 6 minutes to impact. The alert would need about two minutes to go out.

Assuming Guam TV is off line at night along with probably the radio, there is no point.

For us, if for example a Missile is fired off Ocean City to DC against our Leadership, it's there in about 4 minutes. Three would probably be no time to get this kind of alert out. Our system based on TV and Radio needs a certain amount of time, enough to give you anywhere in the USA about 2 minutes to find a hole in event of a missile attack against our Land that needs between 22 and 32 minutes to arrive. the last 6 or so is the time to kick the system and get it going. What happened in Hawaii revealed flaws and also revealed that most of the population would be severely injured or dead while running about futility.

We are not Israel. They are layered in Missile defense systems so good that one was actually shooting off under computer control when a Iron Dome system saw inbound Ak47 bullets and tracked each one enough to fire off it's ready load of 20 missiles to intercept the bullets. I am not kidding. It actually happened earlier this year. It's that good. Unfortunately for Gaza the missiles rained against some towers with people in them. And fortunately for Israel the systems needed a minor re-coding to ignore rifle bullets.

Our Homeland in the USA has very little in the way of defense. So, if there is a shooting war and a near peer Nation state launches on us, all I can tell you is find a hole if you have time.

 

I stumbled across/read a fascinating story about a piece of Cold War preparedness in the D.C. area. There is/was a communications tower/facility on the north side of the city and yes it was hardened against nukes. It had a direct line to other quasi-secret bases like Greenbrier and Camp David. I don't think it's still in service so I have to believe there are even better facilities that are still classified.

So if D.C. was nuked in a short range attack, I'm fairly confident word would get out. Even if it was after detonation.