13 January 2018, Hawaii. Media and text messages inform "ballistic missile threat to Hawaii". For 38 minutes, chaos ensues. The alert will be denied.

On January 13, 2018, on an ordinary Saturday morning, as Hawaiian citizens went about their daily business, everyone in the state received a text message from the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency: "BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL." Hawaiians suddenly confronted a real and urgent nuclear threat-one that we all currently face, but rarely acknowledge.