Our state officials are to be commended for taking even these first baby steps toward disaster resistance and recovery: sweat more now, bleed and die less later.

That said “postulating …15-kiloton[s] …detonated 1,000 feet above Honolulu”, while useful, might be improved upon. A better, more realistic scenario, would be a DPRK DGZ (desired ground zero) planned for the shallow floor of East Loch Pearl Harbor. Not only would there be substantial prompt (blast) damage to Navy ships in port, but for the same 15 kilotons an underwater detonation would elevate and broadcast residual (fall out) damage over a very wide area and for a very long time. Our first responders and medical facilities need the most realistic training they can get.