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The EMP Threat From North Korea Is Real, and Terrifying
pjmedia.com ^ | 4/25/2017 | John R. Moore

Posted on 04/26/2017 8:02:05 AM PDT by rktman

While the total wipeout depicted in One Second After is probably exaggerated, the effects could knock out our power grid for months, and destroy critical communications and computer systems. As former CIA chief James Woolsey recently said:

If you look at the electric grid and what it's susceptible to, we would be moving into a world with no food delivery, no water purification, no banking, no telecommunications, no medicine. All of these things depend on electricity in one way or another.

In such a situation, there simply is no way to rule out the possibility that hundreds of millions could die.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: boggitboggity; electricgrid; emp; empthreat; nkthreat; northkorea; powergrid; preppers; shtf
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Smart guns wouldn't work either. Well unless you stored them in a faraday cage. 1850, I don't believe, was all that pleasant.
1 posted on 04/26/2017 8:02:05 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Tiring scare tactics. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.


2 posted on 04/26/2017 8:03:09 AM PDT by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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Here’s a bubba-fied way to make a faraday cage.

http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/building-a-faraday-cage/


3 posted on 04/26/2017 8:03:28 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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The EMP Threat From North Korea Is Real, and Terrifying

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Paging the “Aw Jeez” Man.

Hasn’t this garbage been bunked and debunked too many times to count over the years?

Yet it keeps coming back up.


4 posted on 04/26/2017 8:05:13 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: rktman

Every redneck has a spare microwave sitting somewhere just use that as a Faraday cage.


5 posted on 04/26/2017 8:06:35 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: rktman
Read the series on this by William Forstchen, One Second After


6 posted on 04/26/2017 8:06:41 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: rktman; GregNH; 2ndDivisionVet; appalachian_dweller; aragorn; Arthur Wildfire! March; ASA Vet; ...

PING!!!

Article and comments,

Thanks, rktman


7 posted on 04/26/2017 8:07:46 AM PDT by Whenifhow (when, if and how will Obama be gone?)
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We just don’t have the money to prepare for an EMP strike.

The money is all tied up in handing out free stuff to lllegal aliens, 4th generation moochers, and muslims who come here to overthrow the country.


8 posted on 04/26/2017 8:09:07 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler
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To: rktman

It’s not hard for every home to have water purification on hand ( lifestraw and other means) and to stockpile some medicines ( vitamins and antibiotics) while it’s still possible to obtain them which the govt is attempting to stop


9 posted on 04/26/2017 8:10:07 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Whenifhow

Hmmm. Seems like some folks think I’ve been ‘hornswaggled’ on this. Whatever that means. LOL! Being aware isn’t always scare tactics. Then again, what are ya gonna do about it if it happens?


10 posted on 04/26/2017 8:11:18 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Because it’s not bunk.

Excecpt maybe in the minds of a few uninformed FReepers.


11 posted on 04/26/2017 8:13:08 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Responsibility2nd

No, it hasn’t been debunked.

It’s an actual thing. What is unknown is to what extent the civil grid will be impacted


12 posted on 04/26/2017 8:15:01 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: silverleaf
"It’s not hard for every home to have water purification on hand ( lifestraw and other means"

Common bleach would work just fine.

13 posted on 04/26/2017 8:16:54 AM PDT by circlecity
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The cheapest way to prevent such a threat is through the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction.

The Little Dictator isn't insane, although he wants everyone to think he is.

14 posted on 04/26/2017 8:17:43 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: miliantnutcase

Microwaves do not work (except at 2.4GHZ)

Prove it by taking a battery powered FM radio, tuned to you favorite local station and placing it in a microwave and closing the door. It will work fiNE right until you hit “cook”


15 posted on 04/26/2017 8:17:53 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: T-Bird45

And the author has spoken as an expert”(Naval College?) About EMF threat before Congress...scary book


16 posted on 04/26/2017 8:17:54 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: rktman

Yeah except that the only current manner to produce an EMP is to explode a nuclear bomb...that has world wide consequences that are far worse than losing the grid

Right now the fat boy can’t get a rocket off the launch pad


17 posted on 04/26/2017 8:18:15 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: RFEngineer
What is unknown is to what extent the civil grid will be impacted

BUMP!...and what retaliatory response will be enacted.

...and...and...and

18 posted on 04/26/2017 8:18:50 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: silverleaf

You would need guns to protect your stockpile. Stockpiles are only temporary. Stockpiles only work until they are depleted or the mob kills you and takes your stockpile.


19 posted on 04/26/2017 8:19:29 AM PDT by robert14
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If the world’s most famous bird-watcher hits the USA with and EMP Weapon, he will get his Kimchi fried.


20 posted on 04/26/2017 8:19:34 AM PDT by donozark (Lock HER up! Lock HIM up! Kick 'em out! Build the wall! GO TRUMP!!)
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