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North Korea 'is capable of striking U.S. with a nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack'
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Posted on 04/10/2014 1:38:23 PM PDT by chessplayer

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To: Ghost of SVR4

You’re right about the consequences for NORK; but, according to the EMP Commission, you’re very wrong about the number of EMPs required.

http://empcommission.org/

IMHO, no state will risk an EMP attack on the USA, for the reasons you mention. However, a non-state terrorist might try it. The most likely scenario being a launch from a freighter, within a few hundred miles of the coast. While the U.S.A. would probably glassify NORK, Iran, and possibly other possible conspirators (deployed nuclear subs would still be operational) — that might not suffice to deter non-state terrorists.


21 posted on 04/10/2014 1:52:46 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: 353FMG
If they do and succeed, we will not have the means to retaliate.

Not as long as barry is around.
22 posted on 04/10/2014 1:52:58 PM PDT by Old Yeller (In Latin, the word sinister means left. Which is appropriate for left-wingers.)
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To: 353FMG

Retaliate and what, put N.K. in the dark like we got !!!

Have you noticed 99% of N.K. LIVES in the dark already.


23 posted on 04/10/2014 1:54:35 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: chessplayer
I did that for a couple of years, voluntarily. I'm good with an early to mid 1800s mountain man life style.

/johnny

24 posted on 04/10/2014 1:57:44 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: chessplayer
if we were to reply in kind, nothing would happen to North Korea...they have nothing for an EMP to effect.


25 posted on 04/10/2014 1:58:46 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: 353FMG

One word: Boomers (as in Trident subs). ONE could wipe out all of North Korea.


26 posted on 04/10/2014 2:05:40 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: subterfuge
> Puhleeze. Obama doesnt have the sense or courage to pull the trigger!
>
> To believe otherwise is fantasy. Its a different time we live in.

You're probably right.

I could see him rejoicing in the suffering of Americans. He'd be likely to nominate the fat little Nork creep for Nobel Peace Prize.

27 posted on 04/10/2014 2:05:59 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: Vaquero

So the little monster riceball literally has nothing to lose?

Or is he thinking, “The Japanese attacked America & ended up getting nuked, then guess what? The Americans rebuilt their entire country & look at Japan today!”

Another Duchy of Grand Fenwick? No, too rational.


28 posted on 04/10/2014 2:07:26 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: Westbrook

well, is this a scenario that would finally allow the federales to put us in concentration camps or otherwise severaly restrict every activity we do, then maybe its what is wanted by TPTB...


29 posted on 04/10/2014 2:08:42 PM PDT by cherry
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To: chessplayer


30 posted on 04/10/2014 2:09:19 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

We put some pretty serious hardware in the upper atmosphere years back while testing our goodies. We could not take out anywhere near the size of the continental United States, we knocked out some lights and made a lot of stuff fuzzy on the radio, but we did not blast a 3500 miles wide diameter area.
I too used to freak at the idea of a single warhead floated up 300 miles would wipe us all out if it came up from the southern hemisphere. Fact is, it won’t. Do damage? Sure, knock out everything? nope. Beyond which, how does a non-state terrorist get a payload into orbit in the first place? They would have to work with a nation in order to do so.


31 posted on 04/10/2014 2:10:01 PM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: Westbrook

We have everything to lose, the Norks very little.

We will be the overall losers.


32 posted on 04/10/2014 2:11:21 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: chessplayer

I suppose the danger would be if they got more help from China or Iran, for example. I still wonder if the EMP hype is commiserate to the threat.


33 posted on 04/10/2014 2:12:09 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: chessplayer
Yep....you eff up them Obamaphones and EBT cards up in here and you got a real bonafide problem.
34 posted on 04/10/2014 2:12:54 PM PDT by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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To: Ghost of SVR4

The EMP Commission has an explanation about how it would work — way to complex for me to attempt to summarize here. Suffice it to say, it is convincing.

http://empcommission.org/


35 posted on 04/10/2014 2:14:13 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: 353FMG

Google “TACAMO”.


36 posted on 04/10/2014 2:14:25 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

It would be a lot easier and cheaper to just shoot out a lot of transformers on the 3 grids at the same time.


37 posted on 04/10/2014 2:17:18 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: cherry
Actually, this is a scenario that would allow US to put the federales into concentration camps until a lamp-post opens up where they could hang out.

/johnny

38 posted on 04/10/2014 2:24:45 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: chessplayer

If they ever decide to do that, launch two: one for us and one for themselves. It will save us the trouble of reducing that barbarian wasteland to a radioactive barbarian wasteland.


39 posted on 04/10/2014 2:28:41 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: TurboZamboni

You might be right about that — beta testing has already occurred.

The damage doesn’t have to be comprehensive — just wide spread. Whether it’s an EMP attack or bullets placed in transformers; IMHO the effects of any large-scale damage to critical infrastructure would quickly be magnified many times over by the ensuing breakdown in social order. Consider Katrina, tropical storm Sandy, etc. Now, imagine that there’s no help coming from the rest of the country, because a large part of the rest of the country is also affected.


40 posted on 04/10/2014 2:30:13 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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