Last night I watched the 5 PM news parade of excuses about what went wrong on Saturday morning when we were told a missile was inbound to Hawaii. The most outrageous statement made was by Emergency Management Agency Administrator, Vern Miyagi. He claims there would be a ninety percent survival rate if a thermonuclear device was detonated. Is he kidding?!?!
The first thermonuclear device dropped on Japan was a uranium bomb yielding approximately 15 kilotons. The second, a plutonium implosion bomb, yielded approximately 20 kilotons. Those two bombs killed 226,000 people. Half were killed during the initial explosions. The rest died from burns, radiation sickness and other injuries.
It is currently projected North Korea can launch a 120-kiloton thermonuclear device. If they figure out targeting technology and how to keep the warhead from burning up on reentry then Hawaii would be toast. From what was shown on TV the only survivor would be the little girl being lowered into a storm drain.
The erroneous alert has shown the State of Hawaii has no clue on what do if a thermonuclear warhead is launched in our direction. Ninety percent survival rate indeed.