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Today, at 15:00, all compatible mobile phones in the UK must emit a high -act whimper when showing a test message from the government’s emergency warning system and exhibiting a test message. The test is just in case, but what’s happening?

From floods to terrorism, the worst situation scenario. When this system was first tested national, it was met with mixed reactions in April 2023. Many people did not receive warnings. Others took him to social media for mocking and breast. Some like me were deeply nervous.

My fear, not because I thought it was real, but I felt that I wrote a tension about the effects of the nuclear attack warning and that reality went through fiction. The warning stole from my family’s phones that day reminded that this could really be one day.

For a child of the 1980s, nuclear fears are not something new. When I first came out, I was very young to watch the 1984 TV drama yarns, but Raymond Briggs’s Wind Blows and 1986 animated film adaptation did enough to make me feel that ‘preparation’ was wrong for nuclear war.

When I finally watched the yarns after years, he didn’t lose his power. It is available for another month in BBC İplayer. For anyone who thinks they will want to survive in the nuclear war, I recommend you to watch yourself to deprive you of the concept.

Britain was prepared for the worst scenarios during the Cold War. And if the nuclear missiles were sent to our way between 1962-1992, it would be the ‘Handel’ system that was responsible for notifying everyone in England. Today, as in the use of the mobile phone network, the Handel system was dependent on another phone system – relying on the conversation time.Goosnargh, Raf High Wycombe in Lancashire and Royal Observer Corps Bunker had two Handel working sites known as injection sites. In addition to TV and radio broadcasts from an emergency studio in BBC Broadcasting House, these sites would be responsible for the warning of the nation in the event of a nuclear attack.

Each of the Handel injection fields had simple -key consoles. If an enemy attack had been identified, the key would be returned in one or both of the injection zones. Two lights burn and then the operator holds a red button and holds it up and holds and “attack warning red”.

The “attack warning red” warning – speech time would be sent to the 250 ‘Carrier Control Points’ (CCPS) based on large police stations throughout the country – through the telephone system. CCPs then convey the warning messages to 7,000 strong sirens – many of the same air strikes that warn the people during the Second World War.

In rural areas, Siren, who works with approximately 11,000 hands, will be operated by volunteers, including rural police officers, postmasters and even PUB hosts. The same system will be used to warn the public about the sprinkler levels after the attack.

So why can’t we use this solid siren system now, especially people with old phones or not connected to 4G or 5G networks may not get text warnings?

Because it doesn’t exist anymore.

Only four years after the Berlin wall fell, it was accepted on the Cold War ‘and the entire system was removed from the service. One of the Handel consoles is now exhibited at the Imperial War Museum.

It was a brave movement and unquestionably stupid. We always needed a warning system – not just for potential war actions, but also for excessive weather and other disasters.

Although the first siren was invented by the Scottish natural philosopher and physicist John Robison around 1799, it was not used in the First World War. Instead, in 1917, the metropolitan police introduced a Maroon system (very high high fireworks type) to warn Londons to approach German bombing planes. Later, ‘All Net’ Warning was heard by Boyslu Boyslu Boys.

Fire was an even earlier method. In 1588, when the Spanish Armada’s 137 ships were seen on the coast of Cornwall, a sign system was illuminated on the southern coast and to London. The speed of this fiery system allowed English to make a defense.

On the 400th anniversary in 1988, another sign chain was burned in England and Wales to celebrate. Most of the historical signs can still be seen, especially in Sussex.

Although it no longer trusts manually illuminated signs anywhere, the UK is far from the first person to adopt the emergency mobile phone warnings. When the disaster was shot with the 2010 earthquake and tsunami, the Chilean national officials could not provide enough rapid security information to the public. As a result, in 2017, Sistera de Alerta de Emergencia (Emergency Warning System) was created and released in 2017. All mobile phones in Chile should be compatible with SAE.

The AB-Alert system can be used for all national authorities in the European Union and is based on the same system as NL-Alert, which was initiated in the Netherlands in 2012.

As in the UK system, the same form of notification and sound are used, regardless of the threat level, it is used from missing children to disaster attack. In some national versions, people may come out of the lowest level of warnings, but serious warnings will be sent to everyone.

Although text warnings are the fastest technical technically more and more popular for mass population warning systems, there is still an interesting diversity of methods. In Japan, the J-Alert system has been operating since 2007. This is partly similar to an updated version of previous British systems, including the use of high sirens.

The satellite-based system can publish both the media and public warnings through a country-wide speaker network and e-mail and cell broadcasts. Japanese officials say that informing local authorities only one second and message to people takes four to twenty seconds. These warnings include everything from severe air and earthquakes to attacks. If ballistic missiles are on their way, a civil protection siren makes a sound on the speakers.

However, none of these systems are perfect. In 2018, a ballistic missile warning was sent in Hawaii. The people were warned to take refuge, and that this was the summit of tensions between North Korea and the United States, many people believed. It took 38 minutes to send a second warning that confirms that there was a wrong alarm to the smartphones. The panic spread from the islands included drivers parked in tunnels, more than one evacuation, people with official shelters and informal areas.

Telephone lines and data services stuck and a man had a heart attack after saying goodbye to his children. He survived, but filed a lawsuit against the state. Of course, tests like today aim to prevent such disastrous errors.

People asked me whether the research, which was published on September 25 and opened with a close nuclear attack warning, turned me into a ‘Prepper’, which has turned me into water and rations, or to build a kind of shelter in the cellar.

In fact, the opposite is true. If the worst would happen, I wouldn’t want to survive and live with the horror of those who would follow. This time, I choose not to be afraid of this test. Instead, at 15:00, I will embrace my family a very big embrace and I will be grateful for spent a normal day together.