Posted on 11/30/2018 12:51:24 PM PST by BenLurkin
The report, titled, “Electromagnetic Defense Task Force,” and the product of a mostly classified summit of officials from 40 agencies just outside of Washington earlier this year, is a forceful call for a new focus on preparing for either an enemy EMP attack or a natural hit such as a solar storm.
While it is focused on the devastating impact an EMP hit would have on the military, it appears to support a congressional warning that up to 90 percent of the population on the East Coast would die in a year of an attack that would dismantle or interfere with electricity, transportation, food processing, and healthcare.
Consider just some of the warnings in the report from the United States Air Force Air University and the Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education.
Figuring out just which country launched an attack would be difficult since certain weapons could be delivered in a satellite.
It also noted the development of the 5G mobile network and how it will run communications and why it must be protected, especially since China is the biggest investor in its development.
“Because control of 5G is roughly equivalent to control of the Internet, open 5G is critical to freedom and free-market economics. Meanwhile, access to the 5G-millimeter wave bandwidth will be critical to operations in all war-fighting domains, in particular, space command & control,” said the white paper.
Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast, the commander of Air Education and Training Command, said, “As electromagnetic technologies fuse in new and often dangerous ways, it’s critical that the military and industry make honest evaluations of present and future conflict states to ensure we’re proactive rather than reactive.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Tone deaf normalcy bias marginalizing a progressive scientist NGO does not negate the FACT that the adults in the room (Military, DHS, Power plant industry) that run things like national security and critical infrastructure are accelerating public awareness, and planning for addressing this existential threat to our nation and citizenry...
Is this good enough for you?
Nov 2018
http://www.infragardmd.org/announcements/12620181272018empsigworkshopsummit
*2018 DHS FBI Critical Infrastructure Liason members InfraGard Training Webinar : Nuclear Detonation Induced EMP and Solar-induced Geomagnetic Disruption (GMP) and its Impact on Critical Infrastructure
We can use leftists for fertilizer.
RE “, however these postulated EMP scenarios do not fall into the credible category.”
Hey Manuel,
What Electrical Engineering Power systems degree and Electrical Power Distribution Grid, Military electronics component EMP shielding work experience expertise do you have to negate the actual adults in the room who are trying to address this?
WASHINGTON SECRETS
Military warns EMP attack could wipe out America, ‘democracy, world order’
by Paul Bedard
November 30, 2018 09:33 AM
In an extraordinary and sobering report meant to wake the nation up to a growing threat, a new military white paper warns that an electromagnetic pulse weapon attack such as those developed by North Korea, Russia, and Iran could essentially wipe out the United States, kill or displace millions, and even force jets to drop from the sky.
“Based on the totality of available data,” said the report from the Air Force’s Air University and provided to Secrets, “an electromagnetic spectrum attack may be a threat to the United States, democracy, and the world order.”
The report, titled, “Electromagnetic Defense Task Force,” and the product of a mostly classified summit of 40 agencies just outside of Washington earlier this year, is the most forceful call by any government agency yet for a new focus on preparing for either an enemy EMP attack or a natural hit such as a solar storm.
(Screenshot General LeMay Center for Doctrine)
While it is focused on the devastating impact an EMP hit would have on the military, it backs up a congressional warning that up to 90 percent of the population on the East Coast would die in a year of an attack that would dismantle or interfere with electricity, transportation, food processing, and healthcare.
Consider just some of the warnings in the report from the United States Air Force Air University and the Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education. In an attack, said the report:
99 nuclear reactors would likely melt down without electricity to cool them.4.1 million would be displaced from areas around the nuclear plants as the radioactive cloud spread.
The report highlighted electronic systems on an Airbus A-380 vulnerable to an EMS attack.
(Screenshot/LeMay Center for Doctrine)
Military and commercial jets, such as those built by Airbus, would fall from the sky. “Alarmingly, aircraft designed to carry large numbers of people and sizable cargo are allowed to operate without certainty about their level of resilience.”Bases would be cut off, making defense and counter-attacks impossible.Civil unrest would start in “hours.”Power and GPS would go dark. “An EMP would cause instantaneous and simultaneous loss of many technologies reliant on electrical power and computer circuit boards, such as cell phones and GPS devices.”Technology would be dismantled. “Failures may include long-term loss of electrical power (due to loss of emergency generators), sewage, fresh water, banking, landlines, cellular service, vehicles.”18 months are required to replace key elements of the electric grid that would be damaged or knocked out.
Figuring out just which country launched an attack would be difficult since the weapon could be delivered in a satellite.
It also noted the development of the 5G mobile network and how it will run communications and why it must be protected, especially since China is the biggest competitor to its development.
“Because control of 5G is roughly equivalent to control of the Internet, open 5G is critical to freedom and free-market economics. Meanwhile, access to the 5G-millimeter wave bandwidth will be critical to operations in all war-fighting domains, in particular, space command & control,” said the white paper.
Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast, the commander of Air Education and Training Command who oversaw the EMP summit, told Secrets, “As electromagnetic technologies fuse in new and often dangerous ways, it’s critical that the military and industry make honest evaluations of present and future conflict states to ensure we’re proactive rather than reactive.”
He also advised for predicting how U.S. foes will try to outsmart any fixes to the electric grid and other targets of an EMP attack.
“French actions before WWII demonstrate that even bold action, such as building the Maginot Line, can be rapidly overcome through imagination. The imagination that defeated the Maginot Line was the German Blitzkrieg which unexpectedly exploited the only gap in the wall. Groundbreaking research like this can help the wider defense community understand not only how take bold action, but how to take the right bold action to prevent catastrophic outcomes,” said the general.
The report said that the president should focus on the issue and declare it a critical issue. What’s more, it called for a central office to push for EMP prevention and reaction should an attack come.
The report, written by experts Air Force Maj. David Stuckenberg, former CIA Director James Woolsey, and Col. Douglas DeMaio, also called for a national and congressional publicity campaign to alert the nation and governmental leaders to the threat.
“The potential for an adversary to inflict damage on states through EMS attack has grown significantly,” said the 69-page report, which warned, “An EMP attack affects all devices with solid-state electronics and could render inoperative the main grid and backup power systems, such as on-site generators.”
It highlighted the lack of a reaction plan or major focus on an EMP attack, even if just from a solar flare. “In some areas, there is a complete absence of strategy,” said the report. It added, “EMP is a tragedy of the commons as ‘no one’s job jar.’”
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For all this time, I thought climate change was going to get us, I never suspected EMP would do us in.
My 67 GTO and my 47 Dodge truck came EMP hardened from the factory.
An extreme solar flare like something that happened in the 1870’s would affect the whole world. The damage would be extreme just like a man made EMP event only on a wider scale.
So the power goes out for a week...
And EBT cards don’t work
Why are you using a week as your timeline?
Do you think any hospitals as well as people at home have life support equipment dependent on electricity?
Are EMPS are targeted for only Dem Controlled Cities?
Might want to rethink your post...
Snowflakes...
What about the elderly and preemies?
5G is a horror that should be stopped before it is implemented.
+1000 for elevating this existential threat discussion beyond cranky old man politics.
Why would you say an EMP will save the country.
I did not know EMPS strike only liberals and snowflakes.
They strike military, hospitals, factories, etc.
Watch a few episodes of Walking Dead...it is not just snowflakes who starve, and we will be fighting town to town...
After numbers are sufficiently down, Chinese or some other force will likely invade and then they will rebuild.
This seems to be just a rehash by some lobbyist group.
Anybody know anything about the group that sponsored this?
United States Air Force Air University and the Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education. Citing figures from the Union of Concerned Scientists, the report:
These people are military...And they are likely spot on...
We need a wall and we need to harden the grid against cyber induced EMPs and Solar induced EMPS...
“For those of you that have been doing your reading, you already know that a nuclear EMP delivers three forms of energy. These are called; E-1, E-2 and E-3. E-1 and E-2 do not occur during a massive Solar Flare/CME strike on our planet. If you want to know more about E-1 and E-2, I recommend:”
The E-3 pulse will take down the power grid. “E1 is the component that can destroy computers and communications equipment; and it changes too fast for ordinary lightning protectors to provide effective protection against it.”
“According to the United States EMP Commission, the main potential problem with the E2 component is the fact that it immediately follows the E1 component, which may have damaged the devices that would normally protect against E2.”
“The E3 component has similarities to a geomagnetic storm caused by a very severe solar coronal mass ejection (CME).4, 5, 6 Like a geomagnetic storm, E3 can produce geomagnetically induced currents in long electrical conductors, which can then damage or destroy components such as power line transformers.”
It’s the E1 that will kiss your smart phone good bye.
No matter the cause, when the wired infrastructure (electrical/electronics) goes down, that’s when the chaos begins. A week—no; a month—no; but 6 months will stress any group of people, especially a city, where no apparent outside help can be expected. I don’t fear EMP or flares, but I am concerned about our enemies shutting down our major systems through hacking, or surgical conventional weapon strikes on the electrical distribution infrastructure, wherever they may be. Take away the national electrical power grid for 6 months, and chaos will certainly reign.
See post to Destroyer Sailor
The UCS membership includes many private citizens in addition to professional scientists. Anne Kapuscinski, Sherman Fairchild distinguished professor of sustainability science in the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College, currently chairs the UCS Board of Directors, having replaced James J. McCarthy,...
Issue stances
The UCS supports...the enactment of state laws to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, as well as national and international action to combat climate change...The UCS supports a national renewable energy standard which would require utilities to produce a certain percentage of their energy from sources such as wind power, solar energy...The UCS has also endorsed the Forests Now Declaration, which calls for new market based mechanism to protect forests, as the group has recognised the importance of curbing deforestation to tackle climate change.[15] The group also supports governmental incentives for people who want to preserve undeveloped land instead of selling it to developers,...They also oppose the use of space weapons, and work on reducing the number of nuclear weapons around the world.
That’s why the projections are only 10% of population will survive a year after an EMP gets to us. Folks just don’t believe it can happen. A mild solar EMP took down part of the NE grid around 1989 (I think). Both the US have Russia have ran tests on EMP caused by nuclear events. Both Iran and N Korea would love to EMP us and claim they took down the Great Satan.
Doesn’t the military use our electric grid?
I will answer, yes they do...
Altho some of their military grid is hardened, much goes across civilian grid, so why wouldn’t you want to harden the grid when you say “One more thing. The more we shy away from building up our defense forces, the sooner we’ll see a nuclear exchange?”
You are mistaken.
U.S. Gov’t and fellow power infrastructure peers are preparing for impending EMP-CME incident.
PREPARE.
12/6/2018 & 12/7/2018: EMP SIG Workshop & Summit
posted Nov 4, 2018, 11:51 AM by N M [ updated Nov 4, 2018, 12:11 PM ]
Please Attend DHS FBI InfraGard EMP SIG Workshop & Summit
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE
WHY: It is vital that the nation critical infrastructures are resilient and prepared for major disasters
WHAT: WORKSHOP on Thursday, December 6 from 8:30am to 5:00pm
Senator Ron Johnson, Chairman of Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs will be our kickoff speaker at 9:00 am.
Major David Stuckenberg will present the 2018 Air University Electromagnetic Defense Task Force Report (Spartacus) and then we will discuss actions based on this valuable information.
Work on the second version of InfraGard’s Action Guide, Powering Through: From Fragile Infrastructures to Community Resilience will be discussed by the authors.
A utility industry panel is planned. Ambassador Hank Cooper will discuss the Lake Wylie Project, which is a hydroelectric cranking path to blackstart a nuclear power plant and help the critical infrastructure be resilient.
We will then brainstorm actions needed to strengthen Critical Infrastructure resilience.
RSVP for the WORKSHOP is by invitation ONLY. InfraGard members - please get RSVP link from email or internal post.
WHAT: SUMMIT on Friday, December 7 from 8:30am to 5:00pm
Undersecretary Bill Bryan, DHS Science and Technology will be the kickoff speaker for the Summit.
Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-CO) House Armed Services Committee, Congressman David Price (D-NC), House Intelligence Committee and David Bowdich, FBI Deputy Director are invited to join us Tom Popik and Jordan Kearns will discuss an EMP and GMD cost study carried out by the Foundation for Resilient Societies and Bill Harris discussing funding methods.
Panels on energy emergencies with Paul Stockton, former assistant secretary of defense for Homeland Defense and Americas’ Security Affairs, addressing Emergency Response Orders and State Actions for consequence management are planned.
WHERE: National Capitol Visitors’ Center Congressional Auditorium, Washington, DC
SPOT ON and thank you for taking time to post this!
Designed military hardware to withstand EMP. Studied its effect quite a bit to do that. People can believe it or not but if it happens it will be too late for most people to survive.
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