The unsettling sound of air raid sirens tracing back to World War II and the Cold War returned to Hawaii on Friday in a test warning of a relatively new and unpredictable threat: a nuclear attack from North Korea.
At 11:45 a.m. about 180 sirens on Oahu and 385 statewide blared for the first time since the 1980s or very early 1990s an “attack warning” test intended to alert Hawaii's populace that an intercontinental ballistic missile was on its way.
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