[2ndDivisionVet]

Ambassador R. James Woolsey was the Director of Central Intelligence from 1993-95. Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is chief of staff of the Congressional EMP Commission, served in the House Armed Services Committee and the CIA.

[Mr. Blond]

Don’t give them any ideas.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

This will never happen

[laplata]

“Launch a crash program to harden against EMP attack the U.S. electric grid to preserve American civilization and hundreds of millions of lives. This could be part of President Trump’s infrastructure modernization project”.

This should have the highest priority. China, Russia and India have hardened their grids have hardened their grids. We are stupid and criminally negligent not to do so.

[SkyDancer]

[Alberta's Child]

Woolsey is one of the biggest neo-con globalists in America today. I guess he’s moved on from his last job as a paid stooge for the “green energy” industry.

[DesertRhino]

No, a single atmospheric nuke will not black out all of America, and 90% of the population would not die. This is sold by the people who want a “smart grid”. To replace the entire US power distribution system. Obama called for it.

The single largest graft filled pork project in world history. Follow the money.

[SauronOfMordor]

Forget EMP.

Think about a plane loaded with a large H-bomb, surrounded by as much cobalt as they can fit and still have it fly.

Let it detonate at high altitude at the right spot off the west coast, and the jet stream winds would carry radioactive cobalt fallout all across the US.

[Steely Tom]

Didn’t occur to them to publish this while Obama was president, or while Hillary was SOS, or while she was running for president.

[DesertRhino]

And back in the cold war, all that time, all the Russians needed to wipe us out was -one- bomb. Boy, I bet they feel silly now. /s

[Snickering Hound]

[Rebelbase]

“Two North Korean satellites, the KMS-3 and KMS-4, presently orbit over the U.S. on trajectories consistent with surprise EMP attack.”

Probably have already been mined by the XB-37.

[Sooth2222]

"Ambassador R. James Woolsey was the Director of Central Intelligence from 1993-95. Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is chief of staff of the Congressional EMP Commission, served in the House Armed Services Committee and the CIA."

So how do they get to 90%? I can see why a large city might become a deathtrap, but most of us don't live in large cities.

Maybe this analysis helps explain why the CIA can't find its *** with both hands.

[Hot Tabasco]

Korea is likely still using 1980's CRT's for its computer monitors...........

They're so far behind the technological curve that any threat they may make needs to be mocked..............

[Rothbards ghost]

thanks for this post. some of the nay saying posters in this thread are so ignorant I need to go log into Democratic Underground to get a bit of intelligent discourse!!!

An EMP may not kill "90% of the populace," but let us get a good high altitude nuke, and these clowns will die wondering why their light switches won't come on. The results of a well engineered nuke strike will bring thermonuclear hell on the (supposed?) source, but that won't help those of us here when the entire grid goes down.
Several in here have cited Forstchen's book. It would do the mocking crowd well at least to read it.

Also, some of you might wish to look at engineer 775 on Youtube.

Forstchen is an interesting bird. He has been "adopted" by the prepper community. He never knew any of us before his book and we got him to come speak. He thought we were the TV kind of loons. His remarks now is "in the event of a social/political/military catastrophe, you should pray your neighbor is a 'prepper'".

Keyboard commandos have no idea how fragile our society is.

Thanks again to the OP for posting this.

[WatchungEagle]

“Yet any nation that has built nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, as North Korea has done, can easily overcome the relatively much simpler technological challenge of warhead miniaturization and reentry vehicle design.”

That’s false. It’s much harder to miniaturize and make a reentry vehicle than to make a primitive fission bomb like North Korea has. The hardest part about making a primitive fission bomb is getting the fissionable material.

The advanced metallurgy needed make the reentry vehicle is really hard stuff to master.

[LucyT]

Instead of cash, the U.S. should have been sending Large boxes of Chocolates to little Kim.

[lavaroise]

Kim is angling for some kind of communist martyrdom... A small version of Stalin crying because of German invasion... But this time by an America in a civil strife hardening on its populace...

This is the political plan.

[Yosemitest]

Turn the military of South Korea loose and let them lead in the battle to wipe out the North Koreans.
Back them up with all the tactical nukes and the F-16 that are in the arsenal.
We've been practicing that battle since the mid 90s.

[Vermont Lt]

There is no compelling reason for Kim to drop an H bomb on us. That would guarantee his almost immediate incineration from both us and China.

He is crazy but not suicidal.

Why is everyone in DC hell bent on us starting a war. They really need to stop.

[Crusher138]

My fear is that some left leaning intelligence stooge could be convinced that by facilitating an attack on America in a devistating way the people would turn against Trump and look to the Democrats for leadership.