{"id":345183,"date":"2018-01-24T04:06:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T03:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/doomsday-panic-in-hawaii\/"},"modified":"2018-01-24T04:06:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T03:06:34","slug":"doomsday-panic-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/doomsday-panic-in-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Doomsday Panic in Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_99195\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99195\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-22-at-5.54.07-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"341\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by LASZLO ILYES | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When Daniel Ellsberg visited Los Angeles in mid-December, promoting his important new book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1608196704\/counterpunchmaga\">The Doomsday Machine<\/a>, <\/em>his central message was that the threat of nuclear holocaust was more looming than generally believed.\u00a0 The American people have been lulled to sleep, distracted by endless media and political spectacles, while busy warmakers keep refining their insane nuclear blueprints that, once actualized, could incinerate several hundred million people in a matter of hours, if not minutes. \u00a0\u00a0More than 70 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Pentagon elites still theorize and fantasize about the unthinkable, their demented plans far removed from the realm of political debate or even public awareness.<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that President Trump\u2019s nuclear brinkmanship over North Korea \u2013 his bellicose promise to annihilate an entire country \u2013 not to mention his escalating threats against Iran, has pushed the U.S. (and the world) closer to something like a Doomsday moment?\u00a0\u00a0 Have we reached the point where living on the edge of nuclear catastrophe has become thoroughly normalized?\u00a0 Could Ellsberg\u2019s warnings be more prescient than even he might be prepared to believe?<\/p>\n<p>Exactly one month after Ellsberg\u2019s talk, on a quiet Saturday morning, the state of Hawaii awoke to the most startling text message: \u201c<em>Ballistic Missile Threat Inbound to Hawaii.\u00a0 Seek Immediate Shelter.\u00a0 This is Not a Drill.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>At that moment, I happened to be in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/01\/23\/doomsday-panic-in-hawaii\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by LASZLO ILYES | CC BY 2.0 When Daniel Ellsberg visited Los Angeles in mid-December, promoting his important new book The Doomsday Machine, his central message was that the threat of nuclear holocaust was more looming than generally believed.\u00a0 The American people have been lulled to sleep, distracted by endless media and political spectacles, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}