Article published on January 13th, 2019, by Timothy Hurley in the Star Advertiser.… Read More 38 Minutes of Terror

Lessons for emergency preparedness a year after Hawaii’s false alert. Article published on January 14th, 2019, by Kristyn Karl, Ashley Lytle and Alex Wellerstein in the Washington Post. A year ago Sunday, at 8:07 a.m. local time, thousands of people in Hawaii received a terrifying message on their cellphones from the state’s Emergency Management Agency:… Read More A nuclear bomb might not kill you. But not knowing how to respond might.

Alex Wellerstein, a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology and participant at the 2019 Hawaii Journalism Workshop organized by Atomic Reporter and the Stanley Foundation, posted a blog entry after the workshop ended, on January 13th, 2019. Today is the one-year anniversary of the Hawaii false alarm, in which the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency… Read More Notes on the Hawaii false alarm, one year later