Posted on 10/13/2017 8:38:37 AM PDT by rktman
The House Homeland Security Committee heard expert testimony yesterday on the effects of a high-altitude nuclear detonation that could knock out the U.S. electrical grid for up to a year, resulting in the deaths of 90% of Americans.
A nuclear attack from space would generate an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, that would "inflict devastating damage" on the U.S.
Washington Examiner:
In calling on the Pentagon and President Trump to move quickly to protect the grid, the experts testified that an explosion of a high-altitude nuclear bomb delivered by a missile or satellite "could be to shut down the U.S. electric power grid for an indefinite period, leading to the death within a year of up to 90 percent of all Americans."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
My wife is type one. I have ways of keeping her insulin cold during extended power outages.
getting more when that is gone might be a problem.
That’s my understanding as well. They did tests on vehicles under an emp attack and they performed quite well. The body effectively acts as a ferriday cage.
But the fuel pumps and the grid they are connected to are a different story.
It’s the fuel shortage that gets you.
Author? I can find nothing on a book by that name.
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“Gingrich has long warned of the threat that an EMP attack could pose to the United States, and he says Americans aren’t taking the threat seriously.”
“The reason I began focusing on this a decade ago is there are very few events you can’t recover from. You can recover from 9/11, you can recover from Pearl Harbor. This is really different,” Gingrich said. “This creates such a collapse of our fundamental productive capacity that you could literally see a civilization crash and tear itself apart fighting … internally.”
A science fiction novel called “One Second After” told a cautionary tale of the doomsday scenario that would unfold if such an attack hit the U.S., frying electrical circuits and knocking out power. In the introduction to the book, Gingrich suggested that an EMP attack would “throw all of our lives back to an existence equal to that of the Middle Ages.”
“Millions would die in the first week alone,” he wrote in the foreword of the novel released in 2009.
And he told attendees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s policy conference that the U.S. was facing “some catastrophic problems” because of the specter of an EMP attack on the United States, and that the United States lacked a national security strategy to counter those threats. In the May 2009 speech, Gingrich suggested a pre-emptive attack on Iranian and North Korean missiles that he believed could be used to position a nuclear weapon above the United States and trigger an EMP attack.
above from link: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/electromagnetic-pulse-newt-gingrich-emp-attack-093002
Yes, that’s what they’re saying al_c. Read “One Second After”...
You're right...but worse than Puerto Rico THERE WILL BE NO FIRST RESPONDERS OR AIR LIFT PALLETS OF FOOD AND WATER. NO BAIL OUT - NO HELP - NO GENERATORS... EVER.
Thank you——I definitely want to read that.
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I also recommend the next book, One Year After. Same author.
And just how do you suggest ‘firewood’ be cut and transported? It takes a chain saw to cut - a year or two to dry (green wood doesn’t burn), an ax to split, and trucks to transport... You have NOT thought this one through...
That is the part where federal government gets involved.
First they will need to suspend the enforcement of all sales tax on an emergency basis. Secondly, they need to permit and facilitate the temporary use of IOU, written credit, and verbal bartering. They might just issue bulletins and distribute documents that give example of the proper way to make written agreements for between suppliers/vendors and consumers. This will get abused by many vendors but they can take those documents back to the fed for conversion to real or digital cash.
Yeah, I’d just DIE without my smartphone.
Good point. :-/
We were without electricity for 4 days last summer when our neighborhood had extensive tree damage from a storm. It was a real eyeopener to see how we are reliant on electricity for our basic necessities...
water, lights, air conditioning, (FREE REPUBLIC). Thankfully the power came back on before the freezer defrosted. It would be prudent to stock up for emergencies.
I own 2 axes and a maul myself.
Yes...I laugh at my neighbors who are so proud of their EMPTY garages...well, empty except for their cars. They’d be on our doorstep in a day...
My apologies. I typoed the name.
One Year After: A John Matherson Novel
Thanks.
Hmmm....I thought there was an EMP like test out in the Pacific that affected some Hawaiian Islands...1950’s?
or their starbucks
Indeed. Gotta have a plan in place and supplies to hold out. Wouldn't hurt to have something on hand to barter with either.
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