[FatMax]

The website for his book is http://www.onesecondafter.com/

[allmost]

Looks like a zothouse publication.

[cripplecreek]

EMP attack would wipe out hundreds of millions of Americans

LOL Hundreds of millions is pretty much all of us unless we live an Nazi Pelousi's little world. Not sure an EMP would have much effect on flesh and blood anyway.

[CindyDawg]

EMP?

[bigbob]

Fail

[Badeye]

Nobody is going to die from an EMP event. The man being quoted, if its an accurate quote, just killed his credibility.

[SolidWood]

Nonsense. A strong EMP can disable the infrastructure. It can’t “wipe out” an entire continent... unless the genius author has a different idea of what an EMP is. Hyperbole isn’t wise on serious matters.

[kimmie7]

bunk. infrastructure maybe - killing Americans, bunk.

Do I smell ozone???

[CougarGA7]

I think you would be in more danger from the source of the EMP rather than the EMP itself.

[ctdonath2]

Ok it’s overstated, but the point remains. Having a pacemaker (at 40 even) I’m not quite so quick to laugh off the threat.

[OB1kNOb]

One EMP will cause Amerika to lose 500,000,000 jobs! - IBTZ.

[cweese]

It’d only wipe out your boyfriends on DU. Freepers generally wear anti-EMP suits to prevent this sort of catastrophe from affecting us.

[econjack]

To be effective, the Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) needs to be at altitude or near its target. This means NYC for the most effective damage to financial markets and probably on the ground since I don't think the terrorists have a delivery system that could penetrate our air defenses. I'm not saying it can't be done, only that it wouldn't be easy and likely it would be a single event most likely in NYC.

[Fresh Wind]

I smell ozone...

[Redcloak]

EMP attack would wipe out hundreds of millions of Americans

Only if they're all Cylons.

[WakeUpAndVote]

[autumnraine]

Unless we are all robots and not aware of it, I don’t think it would “wipe us out”.

[theBuckwheat]

While I recognize there is equipment built to exactly mimic the effects of an EM pulse, for most of us, the closet we can come to seeing the effects is to recall what damage is done by a very close lightening strike.

A distant EMP is limited in intensity by the crucial factor of what voltage causes the breakdown of air as an insulator. Above that voltage, air breaks down and the current flows. We experience this when we slide across a carpet and draw a spark when we reach for a door knob.

The effects of an EM pulse will also vary according to its polarization with respect to power cords, antennas and various wires in every device. Wires that run cross-ways to the pulse will pick up a lot less voltage than those laying parallel to it.

It must be admitted that a bolt of lightening is a type of EMP, even if its frequency curve is lower than one from a nuclear explosion. I was at a meeting when a power pole next to the building received a direct lightening strike that knocked one arm off the power pole. One microwave oven in the building was zapped, but not a single computer, cell phone, or car radio was damaged even though they were just a few dozen feet from where the bolt traveled.

The sum and substance of a deliberate EMP attack will be that some devices will be damaged and some will not be. For that very reason alone, it makes a poor military tactic, even as it will cause an unknown amount of economic damage.

[evets]

500M a month!

[caver]

Hundreds of millions, Nancy Pelosi math.......

[jz638]

a rabid unicorn invasion is likely going to be a greater and more realistic threat to america than a EMP weapon that isn’t also a nuke.