Wednesday afternoon, at exactly 2:18 p.m. ET, you can expect to get a text headlined “Presidential Alert” on your cellphone.
But it’s not exactly from President Trump. Rather, its a test of a new nationwide warning system that a president could use in case of an armed attack by another country, a cyberattack or a widespread natural disaster.
During the Cold War, it was pretty common to see and hear tests of the Emergency Broadcasting System.
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