Posted on 10/12/2017 3:57:51 PM PDT by bitt
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.
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.
>>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.
Inverse of the distance squared to be exact.
Unfortunately a lot of those who would survive will be politicians.
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.
*facepalm*
“When their EBT cards no longer function”
How many rifles do they have, and what is their training?
No, the island tip-over guy.
"The counsels of war breed timidity."
Well there you go-———we are doomed.
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Jericho is great. Look up the graphic novel that continues the story.
Y2K gravy train lobbying?
Yet the Empire State Building was built in about a year.
Must be union workers building those transformers.
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.
That’s BS. Americans are more resourceful than that
Great show.
The longer we wait to neutralize N Korea, the harder it will be to do and the more likely we will be attacked first.
90% What bunch of crap. Congress knows as much about this as it does my medical needs and care,ZERO
Losing power for a week over the entire nation would devastate the economy.
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