Posted on 09/25/2011 1:30:34 PM PDT by IbJensen
Most Americans do not know this, but a single EMP attack could potentially wipe out most of the electronics in the United States and instantly send this nation back to the 1800s.
If a nuclear bomb was exploded high enough in the atmosphere over the middle part of the country, the electromagnetic pulse would fry electronic devices from coast to coast. The damage would be millions of times worse than 9/11. Just imagine a world where nobody has power, most cars will not start, the Internet has been fried, the financial system is offline indefinitely, nobody can make any phone calls and virtually all commerce across the entire country is brought to a complete stop. » If you like this article, please subscribe to our daily newsletter
Life-After-An-EMP-Attack-No-Power-No-Food-No-Transportation-No-Banking-And-No-Internet-250x150A nation that does not know how to live without technology would be almost entirely stripped of it at that point. Yes, this could really happen. An EMP attack is America's "Achilles heel", and everyone around the world knows it. It is only a matter of time before someone uses an EMP weapon against us, and at this point we are pretty much completely unprepared.
The sad thing is that we are spending hundreds of billions of dollars hunting down "terrorists" in caves on the other side of the globe and we have been told that because of "national security" it is necessary for our private areas to be touched before we are allowed to get on an airplane, but our government is doing essentially nothing to address what is perhaps our biggest security vulnerability.
What would you and your neighbors do if the power went out and it did not ever come back on? What would you do if an EMP attack happened in the middle of the winter and you suddenly were not able to heat your home any longer? What would you do if all the electronics in your car got fried and you simply could not drive anywhere? What would you do if all the supermarkets in your area shut down because food could not be transported across the country anymore? What would you do if you were suddenly unable to call your family and friends for help? What would you do if you were suddenly unable to get the medicine that you needed? What would you do if your debit cards and credit cards simply did not work any longer and you could not get any of your money out of the bank? What would you do if all of these things happened all at once?
A single EMP attack would be the worst disaster that the United States has ever seen by far. An electromagnetic pulse could potentially fry the vast majority of all the microchips in the United States. In an instant, nearly all of our electronic devices would be rendered useless.
Yes, the federal government knows all about this. The following excerpt is from an April 2008 report by the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack....
“The consequences of lack of food, heat (or air conditioning), water, waste disposal, medical, police, fire fighting support, and effective civil authority would threaten society itself.”
Most of us have become completely and totally dependent on electricity and technology. Without it, most of us would be in huge trouble.
The following is how an article in the Wall Street Journal described the potential consequences of an EMP attack....
No American would necessarily die in the initial attack, but what comes next is potentially catastrophic. The pulse would wipe out most electronics and telecommunications, including the power grid. Millions could die for want of modern medical care or even of starvation since farmers wouldn't be able to harvest crops and distributors wouldn't be able to get food to supermarkets. Commissioner Lowell Wood calls EMP attack a "giant continental time machine" that would move us back more than a century in technology to the late 1800s.
It wouldn't be so bad if we had the knowledge and the infrastructure to live the way that they did back in the 1800s, but today that is simply not the case.
Dr. William Graham was Ronald Reagan’s science adviser and the chairman of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack. Dr. Graham believes that in the event of a large scale EMP attack, the vast majority of Americans would either freeze, starve or die from disease.
Food Storage SystemAccording to Graham, in the aftermath of an EMP attack life in America "would probably be something that you might imagine life to be like around the late 1800s but with several times the population we had in those days, and without the ability of the country to support and sustain all those people."
Would you be able to survive?
All of those big bank accounts may never be able to be recovered after an EMP attack. Your money might be instantly fried out of existence.
The following is what Graham believes would happen to the financial system in the event of an EMP attack....
“Most financial records are stored electronically. ATMs, which depend upon both power and telecommunications, would not be available; banks, which try to back up records but in general aren’t strongly aware of the EMP problem, would face the problem of unprotected storage and computer systems”
This is the danger of having a financial system that is so dependent on technology. We may wake up one day and find that all the money is gone.
But if an EMP attack actually happened, the biggest concern for most of us would be trying to figure out how to survive.
The president of the Center for Security Policy, Frank Gaffney, is convinced that a single EMP attack could result in the deaths of the vast majority of the population of the United States....
"Within a year of that attack, nine out of 10 Americans would be dead, because we can't support a population of the present size in urban centers and the like without electricity"
Are you starting to get a feel for the scope of the problem?
The sad thing is that so much could be done to protect this country from an EMP attack.
Right now, most vital U.S. military infrastructure has at least some protection from an EMP attack.
But the general population has been left completely and totally vulnerable.
It has been estimated that the entire power grid could potentially be protected for about 20 billion dollars. Considering the fact that we have spent over 400 billion dollars in Afghanistan, I think that we could afford it.
We have spent our national security dollars very, very badly and someday it is going to come back to bite us in the rear end.
Right now, other nations around the world are working feverishly to develop EMP weapons. The following is from a statement by Dr. Peter Vincent Pry to the United States Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security on March 8th, 2005....
Russian and Chinese military scientists in open source writings describe the basic principles of nuclear weapons designed specifically to generate an enhanced-EMP effect, that they term "Super-EMP" weapons. "Super-EMP" weapons, according to these foreign open source writings, can destroy even the best protected U.S. military and civilian electronic systems.
But it is not just Russia and China that have been developing "Super-EMP" weapons. According to Newsmax, it is believed that North Korea may have tested a "Super-EMP" weapon back in 2009....
North Korea’s last round of tests, conducted in May 2009, appear to have included a “super-EMP” weapon, capable of emitting enough gamma rays to disable the electric power grid across most of the lower 48 states
Remember, all it would take is one strategically placed EMP attack to wipe out this nation.
But an EMP weapon is not the only danger that can produce this type of effect. The truth is that a really bad geomagnetic storm could also potentially produce almost as much damage.
This is something that everyone knows is one of our biggest vulnerabilities and it is something that we can make preparations for.
Yet the Bush administration and the Obama administration have just stood there and have done nothing.
Our idiocy is astounding.
General Eugene Habiger, the former head of U. S. Strategic Command, has said the following about the possibility of an EMP attack in the future....
“It is not a matter of if, it is a matter of when.”
Remember, this is something that could cause millions times more damage than 9/11 did.
Instead of molesting old ladies at airports and chasing goat herders around the mountains of Afghanistan, perhaps we should be addressing our largest security vulnerabilities.
But that would require using some common sense. Sadly, common sense seems to be in very short supply in Washington D.C. these days.
So if the government is not going to do anything about it, that means that it is up to you to prepare yourself and your family. This world is becoming very unstable and disasters can strike at any time.
We all saw what happened after Hurricane Katrina. The government response was a nightmare. An EMP attack would be millions of times worse and the federal government probably would not even be able to get you and your family any assistance.
You would truly be on your own.
So are you ready?
This is yet another reason why the number of preppers in the United States is exploding. A lot of people can see how the world is changing and they understand that the federal government is not going to come through for them when the chips are down.
An EMP attack could end life as we know it at any time.
It is a glaring security vulnerability and the entire world knows that it is there.
I hope that you are getting ready, because the government certainly is not.
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Cheers!
I have heard that while EMP could be a severe threat, it takes very advanced missle technology to ge tthe EMP high enough, without being seen and shot down, so that it could go off and affect wide swaths of America, and even then only a very strong EMP would get the job done. I have heards that Iran and North Korea are at least a decade away from obtaining the technology needed to pull off an EMP attack of the caliber people are worrying about, if not longer. And in addition, those nations with the needed technology, i.e. Russian and China, realize that new technology in iran and North Korea could easily be traced back to them and so they are unlikely to actively be providing it, just like they werent actively nuking cities during the Cold War.
ANd furthermore, an EMP attack is very risky and there is a godo chance it would fail; and in any event it would still leave the guilty parties open for a nuclear counterstrike-it wouldnt do anything to hamper our abilities to strike with nuclear warheads. It doesn exactly make sense that terorrists or rogue nations would risk something like this when a series of suitcase nukes could have more guaranteed damage. And that is something ordinary Amercians can be on the lookout for and guard against without depending on govt.
But how many nations have that kind of bomb ? And the rogue nations of concern are probably a decade or more from getting technology that powerful.
But how many nations have that kind of bomb ? And the rogue nations of concern are probably a decade or more from getting technology that powerful.Assuming they didn't get help from one of the major nuclear powers, like Russia.
Iran is working hard to have everything needed to destroy the U.S. with an EMP attack (nuclear bombs and long-range missiles). I don't know that they want to do that, and I don't know how quickly they could make everything they need.
But I'd rather we deal with this before they can do so.
Hi all,
Here’s a link to the unclassified test results conducted on Johnson Island of Starfish, Checkmate, and one other device. All were nuclear weapons enhanced to boost the 100MHz emissions from the blast to create the highest degree of coupling over the largest possible range.
This electromagnetic coupling with powerlines and other types of conductive devices spikes the power faster than a lightening strike would, and causes the winding damage and other ill effects everyone is talking about on the thread.
Fact is, you’d have to have it burst somewhere about 500 KM above ground in order to mess with electronics nationwide.
Moreover, while it would be tough in the first four hours or so, within about 8 hours regular phone calls would seem to have been restored over land lines.
Anyway, here’s the link to the data. The really interesting part is that this high microwave yield device was conceived of and created around the same period of time as the Neutron Bomb - which is something most people don’t talk about any more.
They are very similarly built, which raises an interesting question - why do the one and not the other?
If you are going to perpetrate an act of war this massive on the US, would you not just go the whole way and set off a couple of neutron bombs to get the population down?
The Russians and Chinese could be patrolling the major cities by breakfast the following day without much trouble at all if they wanted to.
I agree Iran’s desire to get nuclear technology, when they clearly dont need it, is vital. Particularly since even if EMP isnt a major catastrophy we need to worry about on a national scale-and it does at the moment seem like that is the case-there will be other forms of nuclear and elctric and even antimatter weapons that will be, an Iran will want them. However, I am doubtful regarding the notion that Russia would be making sure Iran gets powerful technology that would damage whole nations like this-they werent stupid enough to do something like this that could endanger their own safety in the Cold war so it is doubtful they would try it now. Although I do wish they would stop coddling Iran’s leadership like they do and dont get why theydo it. Perhaps we need a way to encourage a govt/regime change in Russia too, get a leqadership of conservative Christians who would look for stronger ties with us.
It is hard to tell what Iran wants to do-I had always thought Israel was the regime’s target before anyone else. And so if they could choose one nation to assault-and with nukes they would almost certainly get the chance to attack one nation, it would be Israel. I am looking to have faith that God is looking otu for Israel, but this is a matter of life and death for them much more than it is for us. Thankfully, if Iran does become a global threat we will eventualyl have much of the World’s support on our side-even Sunni Arab states would support Israel and our govt doing preemptive strikes on Iran. And China would do an immediate 180 if Iran closed Hormuz and threatened their oil sources.
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