Old news:
Iran readies launch of new satellite (Iran's second satellite launch, 11/09/2009
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382720/posts
Iran Satellite Launch Heightens Missile Development Concerns By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2009
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=52939
Iran hails successful launch of satellite rocket Posted on Wed 03 Feb 2010 02:51:50 AM MST
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2443266/posts
Iran fires satellite carrier into spacehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2443258/posts
Iran Launches Third Satellite (2012)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2841888/posts
Here's what any nation that can launch a satellite could do. As accessed on 11/13/2011:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/report/1984/ERD.htm EMP
Submitted To
Mr. Wiggins
In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements
for Written Communications
The Marine Corps Command and Staff College
Quantico, Virginia
Major R. D. Erick
United States Marine Corps
April 6, 1984
Excerpt:
“However, the effects produced by a nuclear explosion were not fully realized until the “Johnston Island Test” in 1962. This nuclear blast had a yield of 1.4 megatons at an altitude of 250 miles. The explosion damaged a number of low earth orbit satellites and caused malfunctions and early failure of others. Another effect that was noted during the blast was a blackout up to 600 miles away of high frequency radio communications that lasted for hours. It was caused by disruption of the ionosphere. It also popped circuit breakers, street lights went out, burglar alarms rang, and power lines went down in Honolulu, about 800 miles away. In Nov. 1962, all above ground testing was halted and our testing and analysis was limited to underground testing, analysis of the existing atmospheric test data, nonnuclear simulation, and theoretical calculations.”
[
Okay, the following was recent news.]
Iran endorses nuclear EMP attack on United States [
in 20 places]
March 19, 2015http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3269775/posts
Iran Placing Medium-Range Missiles in Venezuela; Can Reach the U.S. (12/09/10)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2640111/posts‘Die Welt’: Iran building rocket bases in Venezuela (17 May 2011)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2721122/posts
Lawmaker: Iran's Revolutionary Guard Practicing for An EMP Attack on the United States
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2806848/posts
Russia, N.Korea, China give Iran missile aid -CIA
09/08/01
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/519198/posts
Iran military engineers on hand for N. Korea missile launch
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1664760/posts
(7/12/06)
10 Iranian Missile Engineers Visited N. Korea:Sankei reports(check on NK’s Chinese equipments)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1658850/posts
(07/01/06)
S. Korea, U.S. verifying reports on test of new N.K. missile in Iran: source
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834307/posts
(4,000 kilometer range—will reach the Vatican—May 16th, 2007)
Russia engages in 'gangland' diplomacy as it sends warship to the Caribbean (Exercise with Venezuelan military, 2008)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088262/posts
(from 2006)
Russia to build 2 Kalashnikov factories in Venezuela by 2010
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070806/70445720.html
Iran and north Korea do not have thermonuclear weapons nor will they in the foreseeable future.
To cover the U.S. you need to be 200 plus miles up, and remember that the pulse decreases with the square of the distance.... That’s why you need megatons not kilotons.
Ain’t going to happen... You could take out a city at airliner height, but not the country.