"One extra cheese, one triple pepperoni, one 2 liter coke, and one 2 liter Mountain Dew. And get a small cheese for you four. OK, you got it written down?"
So no more selfies?
Some unfortunate errors in this article.
Detonating the bomb in the atmosphere would be sub-optimal. Best would be about 200-400 miles up.
The congressman is overstating the case, but he uses the term “could” so he is correct.
It is unlikely that it would destroy all such electronic devices.
We simply do not know what percentage would be destroyed.
Spoken like a true mindless bureaucrat. People have been aware of the "EMP threat" since an atmospheric nuclear bomb test in the 50s blew out a few street light fuses in Hawaii. The congresscritter thinks no one has done anything about it ever since. Does he really think that since then all electric utilities have risked complete destruction of their entire investments in order to avoid a "3 percent increase in capital investment", and that he can completely prevent this by passing g law"?
Do it to them first
Do it to them first
A hydrogen bomb, exploded within Earth’s atmosphere over a central location like Kansas could potentially mean ‘lights out’ for the entire contiguous U.S.A.
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I’m tired of hearing this oft repeated B.S. Yes, a nuke does produce an EMP. No, it’s effects would not blanket the U.S. a nuke blast effect is limited to a few miles in diameter.
Are you sure it is true? I am not strong in physics, but I recently had to brush up helping my son with his homework and from the little I know it sounds like a scaremongering lie.
You people read too many novels.
What an instantaneous “grid down” might look like.
We’ll probably never know what hit us: EMP, solar flare, cyber attack....there will be nobody on our dead TVs or smart phones to tell us.
“Alas, Brave New Babylon.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3058882/posts
Surely if NK had tested our seisnic sensors would have picked it up?
An oddly shaped beer keg, with bolts and stuff. That’s what I see, honestly.
Don’t know how extensive the Raytheon EKV perimeter is, but it does work.
For decades the nuclear devil has been bottled up by a Faustian bargain called Mutually Assured Destruction. But its underlying premise is that all of the players are sane and lacking of a death-wish. Even the arms reduction negotiations payed homage to that policy, with a careful calculus employed to ensure no one side obtained a momentary first strike advantage.
But new players have entered the field, players who are NOT sane, who believe in the End of Times (12th Imam, anyone?) Our adversaries have given these berks encouragement so as to keep the United States and its allies at a disadvantage. Surely they thought, they could control their mad dogs and not let them go too far. Well, we’re on the cusp of a breakout by a true madman, blowing the MAD doctrine - and the world - to smithereens.
So my proposal is simple. The United States needs to adopt a new MAD Doctrine. Call it MAD II or better yet, MAD Squared. And it goes like this:
“Let it be known throughout the world that if the United States is subject to an EMP attack and brought back to the 17th century, no matter who initiates said attack, then we will not travel back in time alone. A is for Assured and the World is now on notice that we’ll take the whole lot of you back with us. We will launch an EMP attack of our own over every continent - M is for Mutual - resetting us all to the same level of disadvantage - D is for Destruction.”
So Russia, China, curb your dogs. They are off their leash and it has gone too far.
Too Strangelovian? I dunno but it would surely be a wakeup call.
bttt
“A space-based missile defense layer would provide us with the ultimate high ground and ensure we could shoot down an enemy missile as it ascends — when it is most vulnerable. This “boost-phase defense” is a capability we currently do not have. Furthermore, we must increase our Ground-Based Interceptor inventory to 100. “
God only knows why these aren’t in place now.
