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EMP: A Terrorist’s Dream
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Gotta love the 1990s technology used in the video :-)
In all seriousness, if we were going to suffer an attack using a nuclear device the EMP makes more sense. With the technology to get it far enough inland and at the correct altitude, one decent sized weapon could bring us to our knees.
Using surface detonations could be used in large cities for terror purposes and to get a high death toll, but that would be the equivalent of throwing rocks at a hornet’s nest for the ones executing the attack. As a nation it would be harder to align resources and counter attack if our grid is severely damaged.
There won’t be a counter-attack if we are successfully hit with an EMP. There would be no way to contact anyone in the armed services to tell them to counter attack. The little parts of the country shown still having light is false – that is just the directly hit areas. The transmission lines themselves would feed back all the way to the power plants and short the generators. This would happen throughout the US and Canada and parts of Mexico – maybe even all of Mexico because thier grid is even more fragile than ours. Then we have the die-offs.
First, every plane in the sky would fall to earth. Anyone with a pacemaker or other such implanted electronic device would die quickly.
Food, medicine, etc. couldn’t be delivered, so we’d have a secondary die off of people off thier meds – like diabetics. Sanitation would break down and burying the dead would get backed up, so diseases would spread, causing a third die off and likely a fourth until anyone not immune was gone. That should happen right about the time people start starving to death.
Granted, big Navy warships would be able to come to the US to help and nuclear ships can power some cities, but there just aren’t enough of them to save much other than thier home ports, if that. There will also be some resourceful communities that stick together and tough it out.
In general, without modern resources, we be back into the 1600s. It wouldn’t even be back to the 1800 or 1700s. People back then knew how to plow a field with a horse, make butter with a churn, slaughter and field dress farm animals. We’d have to do it ourselve and only what was needed so as to conserve it.
THIS is why I prep and what makes me worry. It is too feasible, too easy and we aren’t ready for it.
I think the threat posed by an EMP is a valid one, I just think it’s an unlikely one. I’m not saying it won’t happen, just that it’s least likely to happen when compared to other means of attack. If we get hit with an EMP, it’s going to have government fingerprints all over it, be it ours or another. Apparently, Faraday cages are our only real defense against it, and I have yet to figure out how I’m going to wrap my vehicle in a Faraday cage and drive down the highway. I’m guessing that I could wrap the vehicle “brain” up, and maybe a few critical components, but that won’t be enough. Just the same, I’m more concerned with financial terrorism (that we are currently facing), rising food prices, undrinkable water, etc. Wrap up what you can for protection, but only a few countries actually have nukes, and there are safeguards in place to reduce theft and accidental launch, so I’m not too worried about it. At least not yet.
Let’s see, it kills – Wall Street, cell phones, lots of machinery, banks, government, automobiles, power grids and returning us to a pre-industrial age. What exactly is the problem with an EMT attack?
The problem with an “EMT” attack is that they are supposed to save lives not take lives… ;) I hate typo Nazis…it just struck me funny.
Touche´ JesSter, you busted me!!!
Wait a minute, it is… ah, EMT – you are wrong! I was referring to the little known ElectroMagnetic ah, Time bomb – that’s it!
And to think I actually made a mistake – sheesh!
A cyber attack is not only more likely and just as damaging – it has already happened. The Russians shut down Georgia’s power grid remotely before they invaded a few years ago, and the Chinese have accidentally activated “shut-down” commands on portions of the US power grid in Florida while they were busy hacking the “smartgrid” and mapping it for just such a purpose!
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/20/smartgrid.vulnerability/
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/04/09/235595/us-plays-down-electricity-grid-hack-reports.htm
This is one of the least likely end of the world scenarios and is better suited to fiction than a scenario to be taken seriously.
Continent-wide EMP requires both a multi-megaton detonation (a fission-fusion device, not a crude fission bomb) and an ICBM (Scuds can’t carry nukes 300 miles high)
There are only a tiny handful of nations in the world who could do that to the U.S., and they would have to expect a full-fledged nuclear retaliatory strike.
These scare videos are largely put out by military-industrial conglomerates who stand to make billions by selling “EMP-proofing” to your local utilities – more corporate welfare on your dime.
Bill in NC,
I totally agree with you. Do you know the probability of an EMP strike happening in the US? I think it is far more likely that Bill Clinton becomes a priest.
When one of these devises goes off, those in it’s range will experience an instantaneous Civil War, time frame envronment.
Korea’s missiles detonate at a height of about 185 mile AGL (above ground level.)
Iran’s missiles detonate at about the same height. Is this just coincidence?
Our experts say, “Don’t worry, they were failures, they’re not Intercontinental capable yet.”
Draw a line, 250 miles inland, north to south, along the east coast. Do the same on the west coast. 75% of our nations population reside with in those confines.
Detonate a series of small nukes up and down both coasts at an height of about 185 mile AGL and you’re back to horse and buggy days.
Operation Sardine Can, Raghead Inc. has around 60 flagged container ships . Bring them into a range of 60 miles of our shore line, east and west. Torch the top of the upper containers and toss them in the water. Errect and launch the missiles to 185 mile AGL and pressto; an instantaneous Deep $hit environmemt!!!!!
Better yet!!! An EMP devise the size of two 55 gal. drums welded together, end to end. That’s the size for a pretty devestating devise. Put in a small commercial plane( Shades of 911), fly a series of these planes up and down both coasts and you have the same conditions as stated above.
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