Congress warned North Korean EMP attack would kill '90% of all Americans'

The Washington Examiner ^ | Oct 12, 2017 | Paul Bedard

[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."

[bitt]

ping

[fortheDeclaration]

Utter nonsense!

[BenLurkin]

That’s if everybody just sits on their hands afterwards, right?

[Mariner]

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

EMP doesn’t have that much range to take out everything over thousands of miles.

It’s ability to create electrical surge declines exponentially with distance.

[SpaceBar]

The Capitol pharmacy must be dispensing LSD.

[bitt]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_(2006_TV_series)

[Col Frank Slade]

Was this House hearing chaired by Mad Max Waters?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Some experts say that spare transformers and parts could be purchased and put near critical infrastructure for as little as $6 billion. Some large transformers have a lead time as long as 18 months from order to delivery.

[CJ Wolf]

Well the sun could do it.

[a fool in paradise]

Including 90% of the State Department, EPA, et al?

[Falcon4.0]

Golly Gee. It’s to bad we can’t EMP them first.

[FreedomStar3028]

Ummmm. No.

[bitt]

or a meteorite..

I’ve read that our missle defense systems are well-hardened..

[Mariner]

“Well the sun could do it.”

Yep, and there would be nothing we could do about that.

[Fedora]

An EMP attack could also capsize Guam, warned Hank Johnson.

[blueunicorn6]

I’d worry about this, but an earlier article said everyone on earth was going to die after a volcano erupts in Yellowstone Park.

So those dead North Koreans can try to kill me twice, but good luck with that.

I think the way to solve this is for Marie Osmond to meet me in Yellowstone Park for a big make out session.

At least I’ll go happy.

[BitWielder1]

That must include liberal commuters stuck on escalators and starving to death.

[kaehurowing]

Some experts say that spare transformers and parts could be purchased and put near critical infrastructure for as little as $6 billion. Some large transformers have a lead time as long as 18 months from order to delivery.

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And they’re all made in . . . . .

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. . . . China.

[jjotto]

Yep. And the witness was noted expert on lots of stuff, Meryl Streep.