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Congress warned North Korean EMP attack would kill '90% of all Americans'
The Washington Examiner ^ | Oct 12, 2017 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 10/12/2017 3:57:51 PM PDT by bitt

Congress was warned Thursday that North Korea is capable of attacking the U.S. today with a nuclear EMP bomb that could indefinitely shut down the electric power grid and kill 90 percent of "all Americans" within a year.

At a House hearing, experts said that North Korea could easily employ the "doomsday scenario" to turn parts of the U.S. to ashes.

In calling on the Pentagon and President Trump to move quickly to protect the grid, the experts testified that an explosion of a high-altitude nuclear bomb delivered by a missile or satellite "could be to shut down the U.S. electric power grid for an indefinite period, leading to the death within a year of up to 90 percent of all Americans."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; bedard; electromagneticpulse; emp; grid; nk; nkemp; nknukes; nkoutofcontrol; third100days; trumpasia; trumpnatlsecurity; whataload
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To: fortheDeclaration

90%, I doubt it. Hell on earth for most Americans, I think very possible. Just think what the people of Puerto Rico would be going through if there was no federal government to ride to the rescue. If you accept the best case scenario of EMP doubters its still unconscionable not to spend the relative chump change necessary to harden vital infrastructure.


21 posted on 10/12/2017 4:09:37 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: Mariner

Don’t be so skeptical.

With as much of the population so slavishly tied to existing on the internet, it is very plausible that even a mild disruption in the power grid would send a lot of these into a panic, and won’t be able to feed or care for themselves.

It’s not just the interruption in the power grid that would be the direct threat, any disruption would spur the ferals in society to ramp up their anarchy like never before. When their EBT cards no longer function, you can bet that they’ll be killing whoever they think has what they want.


22 posted on 10/12/2017 4:10:08 PM PDT by fwdude (The perverted left-bound train is always accusing the train station of "moving right.")
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To: Mariner

>>I can’t believe this silly shit finds it way to Congressional testimony, much less Free Republic.

There are people here who take that dumb Forstchen novel as gospel.

But then again, judging how people act when threatened by a silly hurricane, I think they’d just kill each other even in the unaffected areas if just 1/4 of the country was affected and the media was still operating to whip up a panic.


23 posted on 10/12/2017 4:10:17 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: Mariner
It’s ability to create electrical surge declines exponentially with distance.

Inverse of the distance squared to be exact.

24 posted on 10/12/2017 4:10:25 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: bitt

Unfortunately a lot of those who would survive will be politicians.


25 posted on 10/12/2017 4:10:49 PM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey playoffs season!)
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To: bitt

The U.S. Congress, AND, the U.S. military, have known of the threat of an “EMP” since the paper was published in ‘Analog Magazine’ in the fall of 1977!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As you can plainly figure out, that is a long toe-dragging 40 years of complicity.

Now, they get all up in arms?!?!? Over North Korea?!?!?
40 years ago, it was THE SOVIETS who was found to have the technology for such a device.

The Congressional uniparty cares NOT about your butt, or mine.


26 posted on 10/12/2017 4:11:06 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: bitt

*facepalm*


27 posted on 10/12/2017 4:12:09 PM PDT by McGruff (Lock Her Up! In a Padded Cell!)
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To: fwdude

“When their EBT cards no longer function”

How many rifles do they have, and what is their training?


28 posted on 10/12/2017 4:12:27 PM PDT by Mariner (Pink Pussy Hats for the NFL)
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To: Col Frank Slade

No, the island tip-over guy.


29 posted on 10/12/2017 4:12:37 PM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: bitt
Two members of the former congressional EMP commission

"The counsels of war breed timidity."

30 posted on 10/12/2017 4:13:04 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: bitt

Well there you go-———we are doomed.

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31 posted on 10/12/2017 4:13:10 PM PDT by Mears
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To: bitt

Jericho is great. Look up the graphic novel that continues the story.


32 posted on 10/12/2017 4:13:22 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: bitt

Y2K gravy train lobbying?


33 posted on 10/12/2017 4:14:25 PM PDT by lavaroise
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Some large transformers have a lead time as long as 18 months from order to delivery.

Yet the Empire State Building was built in about a year.

Must be union workers building those transformers.

34 posted on 10/12/2017 4:15:06 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: bitt; All

I do not believe one nuclear warhead could do it.

Maybe three or five, if deployed optimally.

The good news is that no one knows for sure.

If you knock down the grid and mass communication for a year, over nearly all of the U.S., then 90% casualties are likely.

Doing that looks to be pretty hard, impossible to predict, and becoming less likely by the day.

One of President Trump’s first acts on taking the job was to look to lessen the potential for castastrophe from an EMP or massive sun flare event.

It would not take that much to harden most infrastructure for either event. Likely a few billion dollars.

President Obama refused to do it.


35 posted on 10/12/2017 4:15:10 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: bitt

That’s BS. Americans are more resourceful than that


36 posted on 10/12/2017 4:15:27 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: bitt

Great show.


37 posted on 10/12/2017 4:15:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Mears

The longer we wait to neutralize N Korea, the harder it will be to do and the more likely we will be attacked first.


38 posted on 10/12/2017 4:16:26 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: bitt

90% What bunch of crap. Congress knows as much about this as it does my medical needs and care,ZERO


39 posted on 10/12/2017 4:17:18 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: hardspunned
True, we need to get those defenses the best they can get.

Losing power for a week over the entire nation would devastate the economy.

40 posted on 10/12/2017 4:17:29 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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