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Utter nonsense!
That’s if everybody just sits on their hands afterwards, right?
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.
The Capitol pharmacy must be dispensing LSD.
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.
Including 90% of the State Department, EPA, et al?
Golly Gee. It’s to bad we can’t EMP them first.
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.
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*
"The counsels of war breed timidity."
Well there you go-———we are doomed.
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Y2K gravy train lobbying?
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
90% What bunch of crap. Congress knows as much about this as it does my medical needs and care,ZERO