Part 1: Could Nuclear War Start By Accident?

— “The North Korean bomb size now is estimated to be 150 kilotons. That's ten times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb that the United States dropped on Japan.”

- Scott Portzline, Three Mile Island Alert,
Security Committee Chairman, Harrisburg, PA

— “The magnitude of the effect of an EMP attack on the United States, or any similar advanced country, will remain unknown until one actually happens.   Unless the device is very small or detonated at an insufficiently high altitude, it is likely that it would knock out nearly the entire electrical power grid of the United States.”

- Jerry Emanuelson, B. S. E. E., Intro to Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse

January 26, 2018 - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - On Saturday morning January 13, 2018, at 8:07 AM in Hawaii, cell phones blared a terrifying alert:

Then across TV and radio networks came another emergency alert:  “If you are outdoors, seek immediate shelter in a building. Remain indoors well away from windows. If you are driving, pull safely to the side of the road and seek shelter.”

During the next 38 minutes, parents even tried to put young children down storm drains in the street.