Posted in hopes that FReepers will take the time to download the report and read it to educate themselves about EMP. The report is 7MB PDF but is written in plain English and discusses the potential impact of an EMP attack on our critical infrastructure, including food, water, banking, transportation, energy, etc.
It is well worth the time to become informed on this important topic, regardless of current events with North Korea.
You may not sleep easily afterward, but we cannot prepare for an enemy we do not understand.
How many weeks, months or years is it likely to take before this EMP Assessment Commission has obtained it’s conclusions?
I’m only being partially sarcastic. I know little about this committee.
EMP IS SILLY COMPARED TO A NUKE.
Nukes kill. And they kill for a long time.
Gee thanks.
Once again, eh?
BUMP!
And thank you for posting.
Electromagnetic Pulse and
Geomagnetic Disturbance Grid Protections
A Report from Maine, and an Update on Other Leading States
In short:
I am so screwed.
The report also states:
North Korea maintains an active WMD program, including a nuclear weapon program. It is known that North Korea diverted material in the late 1980s for at least one or possibly two weapons. North Korea's ongoing nuclear program activity raises the possibility that it could produce additional nuclear weapons. North Korea also possesses biological weapons production and dispensing technology, including the capability to deploy chemical or biological warheads on missiles. North Korea also poses a major threat to American interests, and potentially to the United States itself, because it is a major proliferator of the ballistic missile capabilities it possesses-missiles, technology, technicians, transporter-erector-launchers (TELs) and underground facility expertise-to other countries of missile proliferation concern. These countries include Iran, Pakistan and others.
It was well known as recently as 1998 exactly what a threat North Korea was. Yet the Clinton, Bush and Obama Administrations coddled and were extorted by the NK regime into feeding them and providing other forms of support.
In short: Our Government kept kicking the can down the road because they were too inept, cowardly or both to deal with the growing threat of the Nork's and here we are today facing the expressed threat of an EMP attack by the Nork's against the United States of America.
As much as the politicians want to say "the Nork's were 10 years further along than we thought they were" that's a flat-out LIE. This is not an intelligence failure. This is a failure by the US Government to ACT when ACTING would've likely saved far more lives than it would've cost.
I don't say this with any glee as I have two draft-age sons (should it come to that) however it's sure looking increasingly like we're going to be pushed into a war that could've and should've been avoided by three past Presidents and their Administrations/Cabinets.
EMP Commission = t*ts on a boar.
There is a book out there called “The Knowledge”, that is basically a how-to book for bring a society from the stone-age to roughly mid-1940’s-level technology, within a single generation. I highly recommend it for anyone concerned about the aftermath of an EMP attack.
For that matter, the information it contains is handy for building, repairing, or designing things, even without an EMP. And it’s kind of a fun read.
Thanks bigbob, appreciate you posting the link. I plan to start reading it tonight. Years ago I read a great novel by William Fortschen called “One Second After”, a fictional account of life after an EMP that takes place in semi-rural North Caroline, IIRC. That was an eye opener, as I’m sure this will be as well.