Today, October 4th, at about 2:20 pm EDT, the U.S. government is conducting a test of the Nationwide Emergency Alert System (NEAS). Here is a list of the communication methods the system will use to communicate to everyone about a national threat. The first is … electronic…. Okay, that completes the list of all the communications methods for the Emergency Alert System. In this episode, we’ll be looking at the effectiveness of the NEAS in warning us of two specific catastrophic Black Swan events.