[EAS] PACOM Alerting

[Tim Stoffel]

I can see it now.

In the glowing, radioactive remains of the radio station, the EAS decoder goes off with the BMA (Ballistic Missile Alert, also known as an Olive Drab Alert), ten minutes after the blast, thanks to the delay the alert spent propagating through all those channels.

Tim Stoffel

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-----Original Message-----
From: EAS [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Botterell, Arthur at CalOES
The idea that an attack warning would come directly from the feds is largely a feature of the movies.  In fact the plan is still, as it has been for decades, that the alert would come down to the states from the feds, and from the states to the locals, and from the locals to the public.  There's a specialized telephone conference system called NAWAS to facilitate that.