early warning system
Threat detection network
An early warning system detects threats or dangers before they fully develop, giving time to respond.
The term applies to military radar networks that detect incoming missiles, weather monitoring that forecasts natural disasters, and financial indicators that signal economic trouble: The country's early warning system detected the incoming aircraft.
Any mechanism that provides advance notice of problems qualifies.
- alarmUrgent warning signal
- sirenWailing alert device
- radarRadio-wave object detection
- alertWarning or watchfulness
- detectionAct of finding something
sensor · threat · nuclear threat · ballistic missile · signal · monitoring · surveillance · beacon · watchdog · tripwire · evacuation · tsunami · missile · defense · civil defense · preparedness · first responder · broadcast
- disaster preparednessemergency kit, evacuation plans, evacuation plan, storm shelter, emergency shelters
- Warning Systemsalarm, alarms, sirens, fire alarm, smoke detector
- Cold War ArmsICBM, nuclear bomb, hydrogen bomb, atomic bomb, B-52
- Cold War SitesBerlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, Iron Curtain, Brandenburg Gate, Kremlin
- defense systemsshield, armor, missile defense, bunker, radar
- flood controllevee, levees, flood channels, dike, dikes
early warning systemdamage control
Limiting further harm
crisis response · emergency response · post-mortem · post-mortem analysis · hindsight
early warning systemdisaster recovery
Restoring systems after catastrophe
damage limitation · triage · salvage operation · recovery program · reconstruction
early warning systemwillful blindness
Conscious avoidance of knowledge
head in the sand · complacency · negligence · blind spot · information blackout
early, earlier, earliest, earliness, warning, warns, warned, warnings, system