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Brickbat: Oops, Wrong Button

Charles Oliver | 6.1.2017 4:00 AM


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During a drill, New Jersey's State Office of Emergency Management accidentally issued an emergency alert for a nuclear plant in Salem County. While the plant's emergency sirens did not sound, many people saw the alert on TV.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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