EMP: Death of America in the Blink of an Eye

scottfactor.com ^ | 12/02/2010 | Gina Miller

[bvw]

Overblown chicken-little-ism and outright paranoid fantasy especially in the hysterical retelling of what happened in NYC blackout of 1977.

The George Mason U site hosts a better retelling, see: http://blackout.gmu.edu/events/tl1977.html

What must be recollected is that Harlem and the Bronx in 1977 were in the pits BEFORE the blackout, and that reactions in those neighborhoods were colored by the great urban race riots of the late sixties and early seventies. The social dynamic is not the same today.

Note that the great majority of NYC neighborhoods in the blackout were tranquil and orderly. And that AFTER the blackout the city as a whole was motivated and acted with motivation and effect to improve its situation.

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I also hold that the impact of EMP is way overestimated. I speak from experience with systems highly exposed to lightning, and other systems where EMP pulses were part of the process.

[vanilla swirl]

Also rent the series “Jericho” (Hollywoodized but still interesting)
The book scared me because my son is a diabetic.

[Cyber Liberty]

Not even a global humanitarian effort would be enough to keep hundreds of millions of Americans from death by starvation, exposure, or lack of medicine.

So, everybody dies...hysterical anyone?

[freedomlover]

I’m with you on the zombies ;)

[Tonytitan]

...I'd be alot more worried about the soon to be inbound R-36MUTTH/R-36M2 and Topel-M's...

What is Russia's current warhead/delivery vehicle count? Just curious...

[freedomlover]

Windoze users will be used to it. Just reinstall (where’s that system disk?), and reboot . . AGAIN

[OB1kNOb]

Watch the show “Connections”, have a plow handy.

Not familiar with it. What station is it on?

[DCBryan1]

No idea....1999, last time I ever heard, they were wanting less than 100 delivery systems....Russia saw more use in aerospace and heavy payload potential, rather than storing nukes in silos with them.

Topel Ms are increasing in number, and will be MIRV'd despite any treaty limitations that might arise.

[Dead Corpse]

Or Lights Out! if you can still find a copy of it.

[PIF]

Might you have more info on that? Thanks

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Love to. Can’t.

It appeared briefly on the web in the 90s, repleat with spy sat shots of the villages.

However, I believe that there is something by Edward Teller about how the US halted neuton bomb development to be found somewhere, if one is dilligent.

[The Antiyuppie]

This type of incident would be Very, Very Bad if it took place in the 21st century:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859

Storms of this power have been observed in modern times, but luckily weren’t pointed in our direction.