Posted on 04/04/2016 5:37:17 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
Episode 15 is a video interview by Mark Levin of NHS Task Force Executive Director Dr. Peter Pry about the growing EMP threat. Dr. Pry makes a powerful argument about how vulnerable the US and specifically the American people are to an EMP attack on our electrical infrastructure by North Korea or Iran. It would only take one bomb exploded thirty miles over the continental United States to potentially kill ninety million Americans. The bomb itself would not kill anybody.
At any given moment half a million people are flying over the United States. With their electronics destroyed, most of those planes would crash. Those planes that did survive would find themselves without satellite and ground guidance, or landing lights if the attack happened at night. So, within half an hour half a million people would die. Longer term, imagine the aftermath of Katrina but lasting a year or more. People dependent on technology, those in hospitals or needing dialysis would die at their own rates.
Unable to pump gas, travel in a car, make a cell phone call or obtain food, life would crash from the twenty-first century back to the nineteenth. But, people in the nineteenth century had all the infrastructure they needed to survive. We wouldn't. This is a particularly powerful scenario in that we don't know if the North Korean satellite orbiting above the US is a bomb simply waiting for an insane ruler to press the button.
So far our government has done nothing. Dr. Pry says that although Obama is informed of the danger he has done nothing because it would draw attention to the massive failures of his administration to protect Americans.
FYI, Gen.Blather
So what do you think would happen with an EMP event? The sun could potentially cause one. Do you see any mass duality cation at all?
OK, so 90 million in the USA, mostly in the big cities. Rural America , the fly by country, is not really a target. In the mean time our retaliatory attacks will wipe out whole nations. I can see the hordes of city dwellers trying to survive while the fly over country are feasting on their own crops and relying on kerosene lamps and horses. OMG, those poor city folks, they’d have to walk to work, use a bicycle, and learn to cook their own food if there is any left on the shelves. All those restaurants will have no fresh supplies coming in, those refrigeration trucks that deliver the meat are all dead lined, etc.etc.. Its not a pretty picture now, is it? Just think, 90 million bodies to bury without back hoes. Hillary vs. Trump, which one has the most to loose, which one would want to protect it and the people they employ more? Something to kick around in your minds. They don’t need a massive EMP attack, anything that will screw up the power grid would cause enough panic and damage.
The Sun isn’t EMP. We’ve had two solar ejections in the past three years that could have wipe the Earth clean. No amount of prepping will save you from that.
“Physical threats to the grid I agree with and letting in the muslims is the primary source of the threat. This EMP Internet nerd nonsense is for comic book reading teenagers.”
What else would you expect from people who fear chalk?
Exactly. Physical attacks can be very effective, cheap, and easy to do. I am more afraid of what all these muslim, illegal aliens, and other radicalized Americans will do.
“What else would you expect from people who fear chalk?”
Exactly. The mental midgets with a chip on their shoulder are far more a threat to our way of life.
I questioned his comment that people would die from lack of water in three days. None of what you posted addresses that point. Obviously, the longer the duration, the more serious the problems, but nobody’s dropping dead from dehydration in days.
Our home is stocked with light weight portable camping gear including water filter/ purification devices and I have noted where iin the community are the cleanest alternate water sources
Just the old “ Be Prepared” motto of a lifetime Scout
Two words: hand pump.
90% of the population would be dead after 1 year. The un-buried dead (no machines to dig, no fuel for them) would cause plague rivaling the darkest of the dark ages. That alone would be a big percentage. There will be no medicine, no anti-biotics by then as they will have been hoarded and what isn’t will be used up.
Levin propaganda machine pushing ineligible Cruz, now EMP BS? Waaaaay to go Mark!
Nuclear devices specifically designed and their detonation carefully placed to induce an EMP in rumored to be X1000 Starfish Prime effectiveness.
” most people” are clueless about the rule of 3’s
3 minutes without air
3 hours without shelter
3 days without water
3 weeks without food
( 3 months without hope)
The seniors, the home bound, children - all vulnerable in a chaotic breakdown
Ever heard the phrase “ we are 9 meals away from anachy”?
Shut down the Ebt system and your stores are under siege by looters within 3 days
One word
LifeStraw
Some will die sooner
Some may last a bit longer
You really need to read up on the subject
There is a serious problem with the concept, here.
An EMP weapon must both be huge (10 megatons or better), and delivered at high altitude, since the EMP cone limits its effect. So, from a point source above Kansas, how high up would it have to be to cover the lower 48 states?
Now assuming the NK had a 10 megaton nuclear bomb, why waste it on an EMP detonation when they could annihilate a major metropolitan area?
90 million, just about what the out of the work force number is; coincidence?
The sad truth about PV solar power is that every PV solar panel that is within line of sight of an EMP attack will instantly be totally destroyed.
Nobody can predict to what extent power utility systems will be disabled or destroyed. The issue is not how many individual system components will be rendered useless, but how little component damage it will take to disrupt power for more than a few days.
Why are not the utilities themselves taking steps to mitigate this threat? Maybe to a certain extent we should ask state regulatory agencies why they don’t allow utility spending on EMP to be included in the rate base and thus stop punishing utilities for addressing this risk.
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