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DHS study: North Korea capable of EMP attack on U.S.
World Net Daily ^
| April 9, 2014
| F. Michael Maloof
Posted on 04/10/2014 4:00:16 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
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To: Tugo
You make another good point. However, I don’t know we can expect the USAF to know what is inside a Chinese satellite.
To: Former Proud Canadian
I’m not too worried.
Their leader doesn’t seem bright enough to have the ability to operate an electric can opener.
To: Jack Hydrazine
Jack, opening this discussion will be tantamount to hijacking my own thread. I live in Canada. My wife is a US citizen who commutes 4/5 times a week to work in the US. I travel back and forth a lot, yesterday was the last time. DHS is getting heavier every day and I'm not referring to problems entering the US, the problem is leaving the US.
If you want to discuss this freepmail me.
To: Former Proud Canadian
Would fissionable material in orbit radiate a discernible signature?
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posted on
04/10/2014 5:59:51 AM PDT
by
Tugo
(22LR = MAD-MAX WORLD CURRENCY)
To: Former Proud Canadian
Scary stuff! If it were from a source more reliable than WND, I’d be extremely worried.
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posted on
04/10/2014 6:02:49 AM PDT
by
Hawthorn
To: Former Proud Canadian
a copy obtained by Peter Vincent Pry
Glad he was able to PRY that loose.
To: Former Proud Canadian
So all the tanks, bullets, swat teams, thugs and goons are to take on the North Koreans? I wish.
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posted on
04/10/2014 6:03:56 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(When fascism comes it will come..with promises of a better world.The jackboots come later..-Shapiro)
To: Hawthorn
If it were from a source more reliable than WND, Id be extremely worried.
Anyone check DEBKA for confirmation?
To: Tugo
You would think, but, I don’t know.
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posted on
04/10/2014 6:43:36 AM PDT
by
USCG SimTech
(Honored to serve since '71)
To: Former Proud Canadian
Im afraid that EMP defense is up to individuals. Good luck with that.
Even a small EMP could damage several states. The power grid will likely fail. The service trucks to fix the grid probably wont start. Without power, it wont matter if your electronics are fried or not.
Without power, grocery stores, pharmacies, & gas stations are closed - no food & no gas for a generator or working vehicle. No medicines or prescriptions available. Safe water will become hard to find. Disease & starvation are likely. The sick, disabled, & elderly will suffer the most.
In about 2 weeks, anarchy will rule the streets & neighborhoods of the effected area. Police will be powerless to stop the looting & violence. Martial law will be needed but slow in coming - see Katrina.
Nationally, the stock market will crash, possibly taking the world markets with it - a nuclear war has started. Prices & lines will form in areas untouched by the blast because of the disruption to national commerce. Refugees will stream out of the area, requiring food & shelter.
The recovery period for the area & our nation could be months or years. Complete recovery may never occur. The people most likely to survive such a disaster will be those living in rural or remote areas who have some self sufficiency & supplies. City folks are mostly doomed by either dehydration, starvation, disease, or violence.
It is dangerously foolish to allow a lunatic to possess such weapons. Un & China need to be told than Un has 90 days to destroy his nuclear program or the USA will do it for him & destroy his regime in the process.
Unfortunately, we have a weak, unAmerican President who wont do a thing to stop NK. Too, I blame GWB for failing to stop it, either.
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posted on
04/10/2014 6:45:09 AM PDT
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Mister Da
(The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
To: DCBryan1
I agree. The more I've been reading about EMP, especially the Russian test on one of their own towns, the more I'm led to believe that this is way overrated. It would take a lot of nukes going off to bring about some kind of apocalyptic end of the power grid and all computers type of scenario. If that's the case just use the nukes to hit targets instead with the EMP as a side effect.
To: Mister Da
RE post 51, you are generally correct but I think you are far too optimistic. Two weeks for anarchy? No communications, no power, no ATMs, no EBTs means anarchy in a couple of hours, not a couple of weeks.
It would make Katrina look like a Sunday social in Amish country.
To: Tugo
Space Command isn’t in Cheyenne Mountain. They do have a pretty good idea of whats up there though.
The Mountain has mostly been mothballed.
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posted on
04/10/2014 7:12:41 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Former Proud Canadian
If you'd like to read an excellent, well researched, fictionalized account of an EMP and the aftermath, get the book
One Second After.
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posted on
04/10/2014 8:16:45 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(Support ABLE, the Anybody But Lindsey Effort. Yes, we are the ABLE!!)
To: Former Proud Canadian
Time to arrange a nuclear “accident” or two at their nuke facilities.
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posted on
04/10/2014 9:47:10 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: Jack Hammer
Whats the range of an EMP blast?Depends on the size of the weapon and the altitude of detonation. Translation: I don't know!
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posted on
04/10/2014 9:48:43 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: Former Proud Canadian
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posted on
04/10/2014 9:52:42 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
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To: JimRed
That’s how Israel would handle it.
To: Former Proud Canadian
For highly urbanized areas your are probably closer to right than I am. High-rise dwellers without power, water, & heat will be essentially homeless. That will create chaos.
But, rural areas will fair better, with fewer people seeking scarce resources. Everybody knows everybody in the country, so cooperation is more likely than anarchy. Rural America wont panic nearly as quick as city folk, if at all.
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posted on
04/10/2014 10:57:26 AM PDT
by
Mister Da
(The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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