Posted on 09/03/2017 8:16:42 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
North Korea openly threatens EMP attack for the first time, changing the game
BY ANTHONY FUREY, POSTMEDIA NETWORK
The news Sunday morning that North Korea had launched what appeared to be its sixth nuclear test and most powerful one to date is troubling enough.
But a statement from the rogue regime took things to a whole new level. The North said it had tested an H-bomb that was “a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack according to strategic goals.”
This is the first time it has publicly mentioned its interest and ability in an EMP attack, a devastating weapon that could have catastrophic consequences for North America, the West and their closer neighbours.
An EMP attack, as I detail in my new book Pulse Attack, is a nuclear detonation that occurs in the atmosphere and creates a waveform that can take down the electrical grid below.
In the worst case scenario, this wouldn’t just shut off the power for minutes or hours, but weeks or even months, due to serious damage to transformer stations and other integral elements of our power infrastructure.
This wouldn’t just mean we couldn’t turn on our laptops and televisions; it would shut down our telecommunications, transportation, water systems, our ability to get food to cities and much more.
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Except the alien in The Corbomite Maneuver was cuter than Kim.
All good.
To resolve that concern, I bought a small dual fuel propane/ gas generator on special and I keep it in a sealed metal trash can, along with my spare radios CB, SW, and other ... and small solar chargers ;-)
Also have a tray full of rechargeable batteries
We live in the ‘country’ and have a 350 gallon propane tank in the yard. I still keep 4 tanks of propane and 30 gallons of no-ethanol gas in sealed canisters.
There’s always more to do, but we have comms and limited power handled in several ways.
P.s. I recommend Charles Chips cans as Faraday cages.
I remember in the 80s when the Israelis took out Saddam’s
reactors he was building
Solved a big problem then
Should have been done to NK when they were just starting
The Norks are their antifa. They russkies and chicoms should worry about the nuclear Frankenstein they are creating. Fat boi is a neurotic pit bull who will turn and bite the hands that feed him.
So on the topic on hand being EMP & nuclear wars I just hope that the vast industrial military complex didn't screwed up and buy the cheapest protection chips while billing us for the most expensive ones, thus gouging the taxpayers and pocketing the difference.
1 name that immediately came to mind was Mc.Pain as a 30+ yrs as a senator who sits on the House Arms committee.
Only exoatmospheric nukes produce the ‘civilization-killer’ wide area EMP. Has to do with X-rays exciting electrons at the edge of space that blast the earth over a broad area.
In other words, if ya don't nuke it from orbit, it's mostly just the Big Bang, heat and radiation that kills. EMP from a mid atmospheric detonation is line of sight and not nearly as damaging.
Read up on EMP please. What they did was detonated it underground to contain not only the explosion but also the radiation effects. EMP is a radiating pulse from a high altitude detonation at about 60 miles. EMP’s are evident in all nuclear explosions. It is the size of the explosion that determines the area affected under it. The difference between a nuclear and a hydrogen bomb is of prime importance to the immediate concern.
http://www.onesecondafter.com/
When I see discarded microwave ovens that are thrown out because they stop working, I pick them up because they can provide a safe for protecting spares for certain electronics like my vehicle computers and sensors that I can swap out to get my vehicles running again. I also keep a radio and old notebook in one.
Lol, well the Klintons Killing machine has an impressive record that even Saddam Hussein would be impressed. According to the last body count it’s now about 245 and counting :-(
does it melt fiber optics? NO CHRISTMAS LIGHTS??? back to homemade candles.
Omg, it wasn’t too long ago I saw those radios going for about $29-$40 each on amazon
They still are.
I think it would be worse than going back to the 19th century. Back then people didn’t have stores so they grew and maintained their own farms and machines. Now people panic when Netflix goes out. It would be like dumping millions of city folks on a island with handtools and telling them to fend for themselves. It would be like every cheesy post nuclear war movie ever made rolled into one.
“If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him.” — Talmud
I suggest putting some stabilizer in that gasoline if you haven’t already.
I think we should let the Russians and Chinese know if we get hit with an EMP by North Korea we will hit THEM with multiple EMPs. If we don’t, we can expect them both to invade us while we are here trying to survive the aftermath. They need to understand that they must bring NK to heel for their own survival
Than you Red China for your bastard son who wants to destroy the world. It is a monument to your sick totalitarian ideology.
I am grateful for all those US interventions that destroyed budding communist nations. And I scorn the liberals who excoriated America for those actions. There would have been dozens of Cubas and North Korea right now.
Bfl
Uh,let me see,would an EMP attack work over North Korea or just the United States? Just wondering
“I just hope that the vast industrial military complex didn’t screwed up and buy the cheapest protection chips while billing us for the most expensive ones”
The main problem is that actually testing any EMP mitigation is quite difficult without detonating a nuclear weapon. There are test facilities that provide some limited capability.
My thinking is that the military would mostly come through OK, with probably some major issues with some equipment. A lot of the COTS C3 gear would be a loss...
The general population would be in some major trouble in affected areas, though...especially any big cities.
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