The Trump Administration's invention of "fake news" as a device to dismiss those critical of its antics also serves to distance that Administration from the "fake news" that put it in office. A similar imperative might apply to recent "accidents" in Hawaii and Japan, where residents were alerted to ballistic missile attacks.
Were these "accidents" not their own form of testing? What did the United States, Japan and North Korea learn from the behaviours of those alerted to these attacks? Just because something is a mistake doesn't mean that something didn't happen. And make no mistake, this was no accident.
I am sure there are at present rooms in the U.S., Japan and North Korea filled with analysts pouring over time-coded CCTV footage, social media postings and phone logs noting what people were and were not doing during these alerts. And what will these analysts conclude from their findings, apart from new projections on how many lives will be lost as a result of what people failed to do when alerted to what might turn out to be a "limited nuclear war"?
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