False alarm puts US national security issues in the firing line

The blunder that caused more than a million people in Hawaii to fear that they were about to be struck by a missile fed scepticism about the government's ability to keep them informed in a real emergency.

The blunder that caused more than a million people in Hawaii to fear that they were about to be struck by a missile fed scepticism about the government's ability to keep them informed in a real emergency, write Jennifer SInco Kelleher and Brian Melley.

When Jonathan Scheuer got an alert on his phone of a ballistic missile headed for Hawaii, he and his family didn’t know what to do.