Congress warned North Korean EMP attack would kill '90% of all Americans'

The Washington Examiner ^ | Oct 12, 2017 | Paul Bedard

[butlerweave]

Someone get a shovel ,before this pile gets way too high

[bgill]

Don't forget the Orange Crush.

[tumblindice]

Spock, we're doomed.

[Sasparilla]

..., I think they’d just kill each other even in the unaffected areas if just 1/4 of the country was affected...

We saw a fistfight at a gas line in a town of 1,200 people during a gas “shortage” on Y2K day. No place is immune.

[CatOwner]

Much cheaper to shoot down the missiles though.

Much easier to off the nut case threatening several countries.

[sleepwalker]

Some folks need to read ‘30 seconds after’.

It is a good novel about life after an EMP attack.

Highly recommended.

[outofsalt]

Texas has 10% of the population of the US?

[servantboy777]

Experts? What experts? Who are they?

I balked the instant I read “kill 90%” of Americans within a year. I see this as a scare tactic at best.

I could believe 90% of inner city rats perhaps. lol

[Menehune56]

Interestingly, the Georgia Guidestones specify an optimum world population of 500 million which just happens to work out to a 93% decrease from the 7.6 billion level as of Oct 2017.

[LegendHasIt]

And I bet they said it like that would be a bad thing.

I call it improving the gene pool.

/

[ImaGraftedBranch]

People are trading on old information. We have multiple transformer factories in the USA. Sheesh. I work less than 10 miles from the biggest one, in Alabama.

[servantboy777]

>>A North Korean Satellite, lol!<<

I wouldn't laugh too loud. NK has two satellites currently orbiting around the earth with paths that take them over the U.S.. What if they placed a warhead on one of these?

Not saying it's fact, juss sayin...what if?

[central_va]

An EMP attack is designed to knock out electronics. Electrical equipment will be fine. If you don’t know the difference between electrical and electronic start googling.

[RedMonqey]

Golly Gee. It’s to bad we can’t EMP them first.

From the satellite photos I've seen posted here their government already did it.

In other words there's nothing to EMP.

[Old Yeller]

A lot of Americans will be killing each other during that time.

[central_va]

If you knock down the grid and mass communication for a year, over nearly all of the U.S., then 90% casualties are likely.

Ridiculous. You can't possible believe that?

[piroque]

I’m sorry to say but you’re probability right

[central_va]

Americans have lived without running water and electricity. They were called your great great grandparents.

[Windflier]

We have multiple transformer factories in the USA. Sheesh. I work less than 10 miles from the biggest one, in Alabama.

Well, is the information true or not?

Does it take eighteen months on average to build a large transformer, or was that allegation incorrect?

[Constitutional Patriot]

I read that these are also manufactured in Germany.