Contents Foreword by Art Botterell vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Witness to a Transformation xv Abbreviations xxv Chapter 1: “This Is Not a Drill” 1 Chapter 2: Public Alert and Warning in the Era of Mobility 17 Chapter 3: Struggle over the Design of the Wireless Emergency Alerts System 37 Chapter 4: Risk: Disasters in California 59 Chapter 5: Trust: False Ballistic Missile Threat in Hawaii 77 Chapter 6: Appropriate Use: Blue Alerts and Presidential Alerts 95 Chapter 7: International Developments 113 Chapter 8: The Future of Mobile Public Alert and Warning 133 Appendix: Annotated Bibliography for Mobile Public Alert and Warning Message Writers 149 Notes 159 Index 193
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