Posted on 11/30/2017 8:37:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I read that one a few years ago. A sobering tale.
Hear! Hear! This theoretical doomsday from EMP always feels exactly like the Y2K hysteria to me.
“Scare tactics from the left” !!!
I know plenty of conservatives who are worried and concerned about this.
BINGO!
Sheesh. Lib scaremongering. China knows that if NK nukes the USA, then the USA will obliterate NK, which means fallout and refugees for them. Rocketboy can rattle his sabre all he wants, but China will prevent this from happening.
“Assuming that I can safely get to it, I’ll be set for a long time.”
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Just you and all the others that will be coming your way ... and those after them and so on ...
So Clinton and Carter! Those damned democrats are totally at fault!
...well...
...there was, um....
There was the part where Chimpy the Pretzel Boy was giving us his (SPOOOON!) speech about Evil Doers ((C) New England Comics) while transporting a reactor to them but thats...that wasnt really his doing....
Its not like he was president or anything.
Damned democrats!
One of the principle reason so many find an EMP attack scary is because we in the US no longer make the turbines needed to generate power - lose one and the wait to replace in is measured in years due to the backlog in Norway (I think).
****Well, I’m certainly upset. I’d have to shoot all the Leftists who tried to take what I have.****
Be sure to save some ammo for the Chinese who will be coming over in container ships by the millions...
It’s very fictional and was written to generate support for grants for certain individuals/groups to do more research.
Copied from a post I made on this subject not to long ago:
There are two and possibly 5 countries with the wherewithal do successfully pull off a hemp detonation IF it was not intercepted in route—one or a few missiles head this way you can bet that there will be enough countermeasures to stop or at least limit the damage...the norks are far from able to pull this off anytime soon
Also, emp effects are based on long circuits pushing up enough energy to fry stuff....power grid is vulnerable but most vehicles, even modern, would be largely unnaffected, as would generators and other electronics that are not plugged in
I know from personal experience parts of out power grid are protected with basically giant fuses and much of it would be brought back online fairly quickly
If you want something credible to worry about then worry about the c&c systems of the power grid, banking ssytem, and toher critical infrastructure being hacked...there is stuff there that should keep you from sleeping well
That’s what you think. There aren’t too many places more remote than my bugout location.
Thats good thinking...should stretch your rations for quite a while as long as you know how to smoke em.
Yep,if such was attempted it would not matter if it was a successful detonation or not, shortly after several long dark shadows (approximately 560 feet long) would appear in the water,close to the surface, near the Island of Japan. There soon would be a tremendous noise as each of those dark objects opened over a score of water tight hatches and multiple missile shaped objects streaked into the heavens (up to 100 for each long dark shadow) and not long after that the nation of North Korea would cease to exist.
Your accusation is baseless.
Premise number 1 is no longer functional.
Premise number 2 doesn’t matter if the US loses the bulk, even if not all, it’s electrical infrastructure.
Texas might survive it. Most don’t know this, but the Texas grid is free-standing. They may have been smart enough to buy back up transformers and mount them in place so that they can reconnect the transmission lines a day after an attack.
That’s all it would take in a lot of cases. Generation spares is another issue.
Correct. And that includes the command and control segment of that infrastructure (ABNCP).
It is not an EM emission from the nuclear device itself which causes EMP.
Rather, gamma rays emitted during the detonation cause Compton scattering in the upper atmosphere (stripping electrons off of atoms and molecules in the air).
The earth's magnetic field then accelerates these electrons to near-relativistic speeds; the moving electrons create large magnetic fields, which induce short but intense currents in electrical materials, leading to all kinds of fun.
This EMP “threat” is tinfoil hat nonsense.
RE: This EMP “threat” is tinfoil hat nonsense
I’d appreciate a more thorough explanation instead of just a one sentence response. Thanks.
Wouldn’t be too bad. The SMALL family and I are sitting on just under 30 acres on the south fork of the New River in NC. We’d get by just fine. I would miss regular dental visits though. There is little doubt, we could HOLD that hill.
This Nation is a spoiled lot. The complete ignorance of MOST of the population would really be an eye opener !!
Our population would “thin” quite rapidly and the word- medieval- would perhaps be used more.
Doubt it happens though . . . . .
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