Posted on 09/09/2012 3:22:11 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Israel might attack Iran by using electromagnetic impulses (EMP) that could cripple the country by shutting down its electronics and sending the Islamic Republic “back to the Stone Age,” The London Sunday Times reported.
EMP causes non-lethal gamma energy to react with the magnetic field and produces a powerful electromagnetic shock wave that can destroy electronic devices, especially those used in Iran’s nuclear plants.
The shock wave would knock out Iran’s power grid and communications systems for transport and financial services, leading to economic collapse.
The “back to the Stone Age” tactic was proposed in the right-wing publication Israel National News by Joe Tuzara, a US writer who said signs that Iran was speeding up development of nuclear weapons should be met with a pre-emptive EMP strike.
The idea previously was published by Dr. Joe Tuzara in Arutz Sheva. A former clinical research-physician-general surgeon for Saudi Arabian, Philippine and American healthcare systems, he wrote, “The wild card is in Israel’s hand - with Electronic Magnetic Pulse (EMP) inscribed on it. If Israel chooses one of its Jericho III missiles to detonate a single EMP warhead at high altitude over north central Iran, there will be with no blast or radiation effects on the ground.”
He explained that one effect of the EMP attack would be that, “Iran’s uranium enrichment centrifuges in Fordo, Natanz and widely scattered elsewhere, would freeze for decades.”
The WorldNetDaily reported three weeks ago, “Israelis have not ruled out a Jericho III missile launch to detonate a single electromagnetic pulse warhead at high altitude over central Iran."
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I would imagine that a close-range targeted EMP would have quite a stronger effect than a "general" high-altitude type event.
Nuclear projects might be protected. Their electrical distribution system? Not likely.
But if you’re already in the stone age would it throw you back into the Cretaceous period? Is the back throwing a fixed amount of time? Would this be localized time travel? So may questions, so few EMP guns.
All the Iranians really care about is protection of their nuclear program. That widespread damage exists elsewhere merely allows them to come on the World stage and cry victimhood.
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I would also wonder about how ‘focused’ an EMP attack could be made. We’ve all seen power system failures and it’s like watching dominoes drop. Could such a failure jump national borders involving other countries besides Iran?
Really? And you are an "authority" on this subject?
Would you not agree that the US is a little more "advanced" than Iran?
Then you should reconsider after reading the following:
Kennedy on the Effects of EMP Attack
http://www.missilethreat.com/archives/id.16/subject_detail.asp
November 24, 2008
Brian T. Kennedy, president of the Claremont Institute, writes in today's Wall Street Journal on the widespread effects a single nuclear weapon could have on the United States, if Russia, China, or Iran were to use it as electromagnetic pulse weapon. An excerpt from the piece:
Think about this scenario: An ordinary-looking freighter ship heading toward New York or Los Angeles launches a missile from its hull or from a canister lowered into the sea. It hits a densely populated area. A million people are incinerated. The ship is then sunk. No one claims responsibility. There is no firm evidence as to who sponsored the attack, and thus no one against whom to launch a counterstrike.
But as terrible as that scenario sounds, there is one that is worse. Let us say the freighter ship launches a nuclear-armed Shahab-3 missile off the coast of the U.S. and the missile explodes 300 miles over Chicago. The nuclear detonation in space creates an electromagnetic pulse (EMP).
Gamma rays from the explosion, through the Compton Effect, generate three classes of disruptive electromagnetic pulses, which permanently destroy consumer electronics, the electronics in some automobiles and, most importantly, the hundreds of large transformers that distribute power throughout the U.S. All of our lights, refrigerators, water-pumping stations, TVs and radios stop running. We have no communication and no ability to provide food and water to 300 million Americans.
This is what is referred to as an EMP attack, and such an attack would effectively throw America back technologically into the early 19th century.
It would require the Iranians to be able to produce a warhead as sophisticated as we expect the Russians or the Chinese to possess. But that is certainly attainable. Common sense would suggest that, absent food and water, the number of people who could die of deprivation and as a result of social breakdown might run well into the millions.
Let us be clear. A successful EMP attack on the U.S. would have a dramatic effect on the country, to say the least. Even one that only affected part of the country would cripple the economy for years.
Dropping nuclear weapons on or retaliating against whoever caused the attack would not help. And an EMP attack is not far-fetched.
Makes NO sense to me as Iran has the best educated lot of the damned mooselimbs. Yet they are allowing themselves to be placed in harms way for No reason cept the religion of peace.
Smoke em.
Someone help me with this. From 1958-62 the USA did numerous high altitude nuclear tests (Trinity and Beyond) and while some shots over Johnston island did impact electrical circuits from Hawaii to New Zealand, there was no permanent damage. So what’s the difference between this Israeli threat and the USA tests?
The vehicle of an EMP disaster is plausable, though I'm not sure on a global scale.
Whatever.
Question to any and all geeks;
If I know an EMP strike would take out my anti-frizzle bearing, without which my ATM machine won't spit out money, wouldn't it be wise of me to have a stockpile of spare anti-frizzle bearings so that a US certified, qualified union worker could replace the fried one with a one less saute'd, thus relieving me of my angst for my bank balance ??
“Either one of these would bring huge opposition from the “world community”.”
Zechariah 14:2-3, says, “For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city shall be taken then shall the Lord go forth to fight against those nations.”
“Makes NO sense to me as Iran has the best educated lot of the damned mooselimbs.”
Just to let you know, the supreme leader (Khamenei) is NOT educated and what he says, goes.
I have suspected a long time that the all encompassing EMP thingy wasn't as magical as it too often was portrayed.
Not to discount it ... I just didn't think it was as easy as exploding at a given altitude to cover a certain area ... the altitude adjusted for different footprints.
Thanx, mdmathis6
Maybe, maybe not but I can tell from your post that you are not.
Would you not agree that the US is a little more "advanced" than Iran?
Yes but what does the US being more advanced than Iran have to do with anything?
I can just visualize the "nation building" contractors salivating with anticipation of juicy contracts.........now, that's what I call REAL shovel ready job creation :-)
I don't understand.
So you fry my circuit board ... why can't I take one from my lead-lined bunker deep underground and replace it?
Why isn't there a power supply (nuke?) in that same bunker providing the electricity?
Do EMP gremlins travel to and fro upon the earth after being released to wreak havoc on any electron ... ala PacMan ?
Here’s my two cents: fifty years ago computer technology & solid state circuitry were in their infancy. Infrastructure was mostly electromechanical & not chip-dependent like today. Nothing there to be fried.
An example: when Soviet pilot Lt. Belenko landed his state of the art MiG-25 in Japan in 1976, those who examined it found the avionics were vacuum tube based which was thought primitive at the time. Later they realized that the old fashioned radios in the MiG were not affected by EMP.
Make sense?
Next thing you know they’ll blast Afghanistan to rubble, lol
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