Posted on 09/16/2011 1:13:22 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
As the nation remembers the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, experts are warning that the U.S. effectively is defenseless against an electro-magnetic pulse attack or a far less expensive radio frequency attack on the nation's critical military and civilian electric and electronic infrastructure, according to Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
Two experts one a communications systems engineer involved in classified programs who works on EMP vulnerabilities and the other a U.S. Defense Department analyst knowledgeable of their impact said that the nation's sensitive telecommunications and the electronic systems embedded in its financial and banking institutions can be "fried" by a "turn of the switch."
The result could be a chaos that could allow terrorists to attack virtually at will.
They both pointed out that relatively cheap over-the-counter technology embedded not only in sensitive U.S. military equipment but also civilian electronic systems has not been protected from such attacks, a development that could create complete panic throughout the U.S. if they were subject either to an EMP or RF attack.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
I know, right? Wasn’t Newt talking about this years ago?
without the electronics deeply embedded in systems to provide food, goods, products, fuel and finances, the parts of the nation hit effectively could be returned to an agricultural age, with citizens depending on local production for food and fuel for heat and transportation.
Great. America becomes Afghanistan overnight.
An EMP attack would be suicidal to whomever launched it. I would nuke the living sh*t out of the country that initiated it.
pat robertson’s had this on 700 club off and on.
What’s that thing?
U.S. essentially defenseless from stunning new weapon: socialist voters trained by socialist teachers and indoctrinated by socialist ABCNNBCBS.
U.S. essentially defenseless from stunning old weapon: Liberal voters trained by liberal teachers and indoctrinated by liberal news media.
I thought there was a relatively cheap $1.78 fix to protect the electrical grid from emps, but nobody was interested. The gizmo that cost $1.78 went on transformers, IIRC..
I know somebody else here will remember it.
You would, but the current pResident wouldn’t.
He has to authorize any nuclear attack, and he wouldn’t.
Ping
Our SSBN fleet will flatten anyone who dares to fire a missile and detonate a nuke over the USA. This threat is mostly a joke to our forces.
Where’s the “Not this Shit again” guy? This gets reposted at a minimum of monthly.
This was done during the end of the Clinton era.
You’ve been around here since 98 and you haven’t seen a beeber set on “stune” yet? That’s series.
Heck, Obama is probably trying to get kim jong il on the phone to beg him to test North Korea’s emp on the US, just so the mocked one can take down #attackwatch on twitter.
Let me know how this turns out, I’ll be in the shower.
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