Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Asked the question above, every sane Jamaican would say an unhesitating 'yes'. So the bigger question is: How should we prepare for the eventuality of an accidental nuclear war?
Accidental or otherwise, a nuclear war would change all our lives forever. And, even though it is unlikely that Jamaica would be directly involved as combatants, we would be part of the collateral damage that would be inevitable.
Let us not fool ourselves, the probability of a nuclear war is nowhere as remote as we would like to think. We in this country like to use the phrase “tek sleep mark death”. Indeed, we should use last weekend's false emergency nuclear alert in Hawaii as an example.
The alert, happily, turned out to be false, but it would have been an epic, if unbelievable catastrophe.
It happened in the one country in the world, the United States, that we would least expect it.
A state employee reportedly accidentally triggered the Emergency Alert System message during what was supposed to be a routine internal test, and it took 38 minutes for authorities to confirm that the warning had been a false alarm. more
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