If you’re an aficionado of law or court shows, the building should be familiar, as it appears in multiple shows and movies. At all.The building above is the New York County Supreme Court, located at 60 Centre Street in Manhattan, in an area known as Foley Square. The false alarm is the perfect time to talk about what to do in such an emergency, Redlener said, because most of the time people don’t want to talk about it. Students bolted across the University of Hawaii campus to take cover in buildings. Parents huddled in bathtubs with their children. Drivers abandoned cars on a highway and took shelter in a tunnel.

The state had set up the missile warning infrastructure after North Korea demonstrated its missiles had the range to reach the islands. People weren’t sure what to do Saturday when Hawaii mistakenly sent a cellphone alert warning of an incoming ballistic missile and didn’t retract it for 38 minutes. There’s a threat, but it’s a different type of threat today.” had nuclear warheads pointed at each other that would devastate the world. “We’re not facing what we were facing 50 years ago, when the Soviet Union and the U.S.

Irwin Redlener, head of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. And conventional wisdom has changed about whether such a shelter system is necessary in an age when an attack is more likely to come from a weak rogue state or terrorist group rather than a superpower. Relics from the Cold War, the aging shelters that once numbered in the thousands in schools, courthouses and churches haven’t been maintained. Take cover in a building bearing a yellow fallout shelter symbol.īut these days, that might not be the best option, or even an option at all.

A generation of Americans knew just what to do in the event of a nuclear attack - or during a major false alarm, like the one over the weekend in Hawaii.

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