How Hawaii is preparing for a nuclear strike

Guam of course is not the only island within striking distance of North Korea
another potential target within Kim Jong Un's range is Hawaii which is where Sara
Sidner is live tonight she's inside a bunker in Honolulu which houses the
emergency operating center state warning point of course as Sara if North Korea
launched a nuclear warhead toward Hawaii let's to start with the very basics here
if such a thing were to occur how long would it take to go from launch to
strike just 20 minutes Erin that is what all the experts say they say that from
the time of launch from North Korea with a nuclear warhead it could land in
Hawaii in 20 minutes which means there will be about five minutes as it's being
tracked and then there will be 15 minutes to get the population warned and
here's where that warning would come first there would be a call that would
come into this phone it's a secure line this gentleman would pick up the phone
he would say okay the missile is coming and then there would be a warning that
would go out to the entire population they have sirens that they are working
on now to make sure that the population knows exactly what that sound means that
there's an attack that's going to happen this phone will be picked up by someone
sitting here they would pick up the hey West phone and they would call all of
the counties and that goes to all the counties directly to let them know that
a warning siren is necessary and that an attack is underway Erin so so Sara it's
pretty stunning when you talk about 20 minutes of which really only 15 minutes
counter warning people how is Y actually preparing for the potential of a nuclear
strike it's one thing to have such an idea and concept and it's another
perhaps to look at it as a real risk
absolutely it's a really good question how do you prepare when you only have
for example 15 minutes but that is why Hawaii is looking for they are the first
state to try and get their population prepared they've been working on this
for months now at least seven months trying to come up with a really good
plan and get that plan out to the public and what they're telling people is look
you need to look at your surroundings because and this is really important a
lot of people on this island believe that if they're hit with a nuclear
warhead that everyone is going to die and the emergency management folks here
say that is absolutely not true not true there will be lots of
survivors and your abilities to survive will probably depend on where you are
and what you have planned for so if you're in a car you want to get inside
of a building if you're in your house you want to get to the center of the
house if you're on the beach see if there's a cave nearby or go across the
street to a building try to get below ground if you can these are all things
that are trying to get out to the public and this is a just in case scenario
people here are not panicking the Emergency Management folks do not want
people to panic but they want them to be prepared preparation is everything and
the thought is that the strength of the bomb that North Korea currently has is
about what the United States had back in the 40s oh we're talking World War two
air a time and people survived Hiroshima people can survive if that same type of
bomb hits here

How Hawaii is preparing for a nuclear strike

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