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.
(Excerpt) Read more at torontosun.com ...
I’ll leave the mocker go, because Jesus said so. It’s God’s problem now.
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Says the mocker...
What an ass.
Here’s what happens when someone tries to shut omnipotent God into a religious philosophical box.
Sooner should fish hit the switch that pumps the aquarium dry.
“...take control of the huge coal deposits (for steel mills) and rare earth minerals. ...”
Interesting; are the coal deposits & rare earth minerals all throughout that area, or just in the NK area?
Why is this whatever still above ground?
:) Great minds think alike...” still is up to no good!”
I am about to post an article:
How Obama and Holder are STILL trying to rig the game
Hadn’t noticed because I didn’t look at it that close but good point. Whoever originally made it, sounds like they were disciples of Obama.
His anti-American thingy had only surpassed his anti-U.K. thingy.
How anybody couldn’t recognize that Nigerian Scam Artist for what he was is beyond me.
Any wiring connected to electronic components acts as an antenna, regardless if disconnected from a grid.
o wow I threw 3 non working microwaves. Didn’t realize they could be used for protection from an EMP.
High altitude burst over Pyongyang with a directed radiation device won’t get much in NK; but, the lights could go out everywhere else in that shot. Could take out China’s power grid feeding the coast where all the industry is. Probably would unleash the disorder the ruling class are direly afraid would unseat the current government.
I know a couple of people here that did that; one is a school teacher who is good at taking tests. She couldn't tell you much about Ham radios but she knows how to take a multiple question test. I scored a 99 on mine and know I could have easily passed the next level if I had chosen to study for it but like I said; I don't want to do that - at least not now. Something else I learned is a lot of people who are really into the hobby and are involved in local Ham radio clubs don't have a lot of respect for those who have the upper level licenses, especially the top one, but have no practical experience with it.
I figured if I was going to own these Ham radios I might as well be able to push the talk button and to do that I needed the basic license. At $15 it was well worth getting. The book or study site is around $25 so it's all very affordable. Admittedly my computer tech background and mechanical background involving electronics did help.
I'd like to believe you, do you have experience or a solid source for your thoughts?
Laurel plant or the one toward Moselle? Either way, the transformers aren’t in the class needed, one’s which are shipped by special rail-car or barge. Try ABB in Saint Louis.
Had a hand in producing prototype / alternative source components for the ABB operation in Guelph, Ontario before plant closing, and prior to Katrina. ABB owns specifications and drawings database info for 70% of transformers installed on the North American continent. Here is a link showing some of what ABB Saint Louis produces.
“I’d like to believe you, do you have experience or a solid source for your thoughts?”
http://www.futurescience.com/emp/EMP-myths.html
This is a good, single-page resource on the event. There are many others that describe each event and each type of event in greater detail.
Literally, a software virus in our infrastructure would cause more damage than a single EMP device anywhere. THAT is what we should be afraid of.
Thanks bro. Eased my mind a little.
Maybe the investigator is going to be investigated!
“Thanks bro. Eased my mind a little.”
Did it ? Ok, lemme ruin it again then !
An EMP has no -personal- impact meaning that anything in your immediate vicinity would be inconvenienced and set aside for a few weeks for repairs. Your life would be pretty good. Your car would work (Maybe a check engine light or some electrical gremlins starting) but overall your house and generator would be ok.
But if that EMP - even a small one - were to hit any of the major electrical grid hubs in our country it would be a different story. It is proclaimed in general public (The military has remained tight-lipped on their supply levels) that hitting a power hub and allowing the damage to cascade would blow out transformers. These transformers would blow out to the tune of 10s of thousands.
And apparently, we don’t have enough to repair or replace them. And those that are available come from China. If we had a US source alone it would take years to repair the grid that was damaged. People will relocate from those areas as refugees. The migration would be enormous. Think 20 simultaneous Katrinas.
With work and productivity heavily damaged, the effect on our economy would be pretty quick. Again, within days food supplies, fuel supplies and energy transportation would be at a standstill. Now the entire county, while our lights may work, will experience the chaotic effects that the cinema promises - An entire nation at a standstill. Gridlocked.
Within days of even a believable EMP strike the US would stop pumping gas, stop shipping food from the farms inland and people would start to migrate on foot to areas of better weather. Could you imagine what today’s population south of the Mason-Dixon would do without even the -hope- of Air conditioning ?
So an EMP strike doesn’t give us the cinematic presentation of devastation, but it gives us another form of devastation. Our country is a delicate system where any interruption of this magnitude - even an EMP over a few key California targets - would cascade into an apocalypse on a grand scale.
It doesn’t take the whole country being involved in the radius of damage... just a surprising FEW parts of it. I mean, I moved away from CT strictly because I took a tour of Hunt’s Point gas and Indian Point. Those places are so full of security holes that I’m surprised they haven’t been hit yet.
And the Hudson river ! If someone were to find a credible bomb threat to any of the bridges that cross the hudson, other bridges would immediately be shut down. New England gets all of it’s food from across the hudson. NE doesn’t actually have producing farms - just show ones for the rich. New England would be lining up behind red cross trucks in 48 hours.
The whole damned thing is so delicate that every time I hear about Mexico losing some fissable material (13 cases since 2000 alone.. There are potentially 13 rogue batches of nuclear fissable material in the US right now.) I break out my preps and practice.
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