10/19/2023 0 Comments Designated nuclear fallout shelters![]() ![]() 1 inauguration of a wavering air raid siren test, to prepare for a North Korean attack, has been postponed. More recently, the North Korea monitoring site said the Sept. Detonated at 1,000 feet, the device would have a blast zone of 3 to 4 miles, officials said. Miyagi said Hawaii Emergency Management recalculated the potential effects of a 100-kiloton bomb on Hawaii after that. intelligence estimates placed the yield at more than 100 kilotons. 3, North Korea detonated its most powerful device ever. Original state planning contemplated the remote possibility of a 15-kiloton North Korean nuke - about the size of the Hiroshima blast - detonating somewhere in Hawaii. Pacific Command warns Hawaii Emergency Management that a missile is on its way, only 12 to 15 minutes theoretically would be left to warn the public. "When you have 20 minutes, this is what we need to do." Fallout shelters during the Cold War were seen as refuges if relations with the Soviet Union started heating to the boiling point, providing some lead time. With such a short warning time, the state's advice is "get inside, stay inside, and stay tuned" for radio instructions. He also emphasized that the time it would take for a North Korean missile to reach Hawaii would be 20 minutes. "It takes a lot of money to expand the shelter program," Miyagi said. With the state population doubling, hurricane shelters are also in short supply, he said. "But as the Cold War died, as the Iron Curtain came down, the Soviet Union turned into Russia and there was no threat anymore, the funding ran out," Miyagi said. Miyagi said Oahu as late as the 1990s had hundreds of designated shelters, some with medical supplies and food. "With our longstanding history of hurricanes and the destruction that's currently going on and now this imminent threat from North Korea - how is it we don't have fallout shelters for our citizens?" LaCarra asked during a question-and-answer session. ![]()
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