And it’s a necessity for individuals and families to talk about and develop their own plan of what they would do.” “City officials should be talking about what their citizens should do if an attack happened. The false alarm is the perfect time to talk about what to do in such an emergency, Redlener said, because most of the time people don’t want to talk about it. A row of bunk beds inside a fallout shelter in New Orleans AP Students bolted across the University of Hawaii campus to take cover in buildings. Parents huddled in bathtubs with their children. Drivers abandoned cars on a highway and took shelter in a tunnel. The state had set up the missile warning infrastructure after North Korea demonstrated its missiles had the range to reach the islands. People weren’t sure what to do Saturday when Hawaii mistakenly sent a cellphone alert warning of an incoming ballistic missile and didn’t retract it for 38 minutes. There’s a threat, but it’s a different type of threat today.” “We’re not facing what we were facing 50 years ago when the Soviet Union and the US had nuclear warheads pointed at each other that would devastate the world. Irwin Redlener, head of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. And conventional wisdom has changed about whether such a shelter system is necessary for an age when an attack is more likely to come from a weak rogue state or terrorist group rather than a superpower. Relics from the Cold War, the aging shelters that once numbered in the thousands in schools, courthouses and churches haven’t been maintained. NEW YORK - A generation of Americans knew just what to do in the event of a nuclear attack - or during a major false alarm, like the one over the weekend in Hawaii: Take cover in a building bearing a yellow fallout shelter symbol.īut these days, that might not be the best option, or even an option at all.
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