An
EMP comes from a nuclear explosion at altitude over the United States.
The blast would disrupt electronics in line of sight, including those
computer and other systems that deliver food, fuel, energy and
communications to Americans.
Further,
repairing or replacing those systems easily could take months, or even
longer.
The
result would be a run on food currently in stores, and starvation when
those supplies failed, as replacements would be impossible without
those delivery systems.
Pry
detailed how an EMP attack would be more devastating than an asteroid
hitting.
“We
have a population of 320 million Americans today – we are only able to
sustain that population because of our technology. Our modern
technological economy and all of our critical infrastructure that
support that economy is keeping 320 million Americans alive,” he
explained. “Communication, transportation, business and finance, our
industrial capability, even food and water depend on electricity. When
you subtract electricity, when you cause a nationwide blackout,
blackout the electric grid and all the life-sustaining critical
infrastructures, how can you now support 320 million people? How many
people can you support?”
Pry
said many downplay the threat of an EMP attack by claiming the
conditions resulting from the attack would be similar to “time
traveling” to a time when people were less dependent on electricity.
But in reality, he warned, the “aftermath of an EMP would be an
unprecedented environmental catastrophe.”
There
would be a ripple effect to the problem, too.
“Gasline
pipes are going to blow up – you’ll have firestorms in cities from
exploding gas pipelines. Chemical spills, toxic clouds industrial
accidents, where fires break out because of the failure of safety …
systems,” he said. “This huge chemistry set that is our society isn’t
just going to sit there and black out; in many cases, it’s going to
detonate and basically turn into bombs. In seven days, the nuclear
reactors will go Fukushima and spread radioactivity everywhere.”
Jeffrey
Yago, a licensed engineer and certified energy professional, says the
danger of an EMP attack is very real.
“I
think in the future of this country, we’re going to certainly see not
only more power outages in more areas, but they’re going to last a lot
longer,” Yago said during an interview on The Hagmann Report. “I’m not
talking about a two-day outage [caused] by a storm or a weeklong outage
by something like Hurricane Sandy or Katrina, but we’re talking
potentially, these problems could impact major parts of the United
States for months, not days.”
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I first heard about EMP from a nuclear weapon about 1973 or 4. It was in a casual conversation with a naval officer friend who had a nuclear engineering position aboard ship. He mentioned EMP, but in case anything he said was classified (I had a position in the AF involving nuclear weaponry), I'll stick to something very basic. The means of delivery and place of delivery, as well as the effects, were somewhat different than those shown in this article. I won't try to correct the author on any point, but I think articles like these are helpful. They are helpful in that someone like the North Koreans and Iranians may try to emulate that attack, which would have far less effect that they expected.
ReplyDeleteMy memory fades but a couple of Senators have tried to get preparations made for a EMP attack and/or a Coronal Mass Ejection from the sun like the Covington event. Put some power lines under ground, store essential transformers for the power grid in Faraday cages, etc. If I recall correctly it was the Grinch a couple of years ago.
ReplyDeleteI'm not to worried about the Russians, they are making too much money off the US with World of Tanks and World of Tanks Blitz, they want to keep the internet up. Excuse me I have to log into my Blitz account and let the Brazilian Kids shoot me up the ass some more. I was told playing video games is supposed to help my failing brain. I'm building up Free XP and saving to purchase a Super Pershing so I can shoot some people up the ass. Some days I really hate the Russians.
If the NorKs did that, China would blast them into the sea. We owe China too much money and if the above happened as detailed, China wouldn't get the money. When the bitch don't have the money, bad things happen. In this case, I think China would melt North Korea.
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ReplyDeleteI wonder if China has neutron bombs? There are some mines in N. Korea that the Chinese would like control of. North Korea used to be the industrialized part of Korea. They had coal and rare element mines.
If we're gonna nuke somebody, screw the Norks, let's nuke the GOATFUCKERS!
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