Posted on 10/13/2017 8:38:37 AM PDT by rktman
The House Homeland Security Committee heard expert testimony yesterday on the effects of a high-altitude nuclear detonation that could knock out the U.S. electrical grid for up to a year, resulting in the deaths of 90% of Americans.
A nuclear attack from space would generate an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, that would "inflict devastating damage" on the U.S.
Washington Examiner:
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."
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90% of millennials would probably commit suicide without access to their smart phones, Facebook, twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat. Especially if they had to actually try to meet someone in person and carry on an actual face to face conversation. That alone would put a dent in the repopulation efforts.
How are you going to pump the gas out of the existing below ground tanks?
How long can you go without clean running water?
All American water supplies rely on huge electric pumps to clean and distribute water through the system. Even people with wells required the electric pumps to pump the water out of the ground and into the house.
Millions would die in a very short period of time.
Less than a day, water is no longer coming out of the taps. Sewage is no longer leaving the house.
In three days every crumb of food is bought or looted from every store in town.
Less than two weeks every bit of perishable food is consumed.
Within a month everyone that relies on a monthly supply of life extending medication would have exhausted their supply.
Tens of Millions dead.
Look at the Nursing Home disaster in Florida.
Less than six months every bird, fish, deer, possum, dog, cat, horse, cow is slaughtered or hunted to exhaustion. Rats will be the meat source.
Casualties escalate on an exponential scale the longer it takes to fix the grid.
Remember, almost every car, truck and train would also be inoperable. Every factory would be unable to produce without electricity.
All the water supplies are run on electric connected to the grid. How long can you survive without clean running water?
Three days. The last day is just terrible suffering.
Do they have septic systems too?
It hasn’t been a year. It has been only a couple weeks.
Massive resupply and extraordinary effort by the Federal Government.
Only 3 million people on a small island. Not 300 million on a continent.
And we would be stuck without TV to watch the rioting.
Fresh water just needs to be boiled. The main problem in most rivers and lakes is just biologics and chemicals/toxins not so much. My last neighbor still had a well with a handpump. Almost never used so it had be primed first to get water. There’s rainwater collection too.
People WILL find a way to survive
We have an ongoing experiment right now with PR...
The island is basically without power...
Biggest secret in the world that 90 % of the island died off...
Nonsense. Heck, 20% of the country won’t even notice. LOL City living will suck for a little while, but, hey, it already sucks, anyway, ....uh ... from what I can tell.
I think this is a ploy on our part to sucker the NorKs into nuking air so that we can nuke NorKs. It’s a good trade, imo.
Mush the Skeptical Strategerist
Yes, they will. After about a year, MOST will be dead. Up to 90% of the country. That is a worst case scenario.
Of course if only 75%, 50% or even 10% of the population dies, it will be the largest casualty event since the Plague! And in terms of raw numbers, the absolute catastrophe the Earth has seen since WWII, maybe worse. 30 to 40 million dead is likely within the first month or two. It took almost a decade of war to kill than many in WWII. From the Japanese invasion of Manchuria to the clean up after the Atomic Bombs.
Imagine the permanent psychological damage a society would sustain if it lost 10% of their population.
"Commerce will be almost impossible as every sale requires a computer connection and electricity."<>br
What would we barter, I wonder? We are no longer farmers, mechanics, or wheelwrights; we hardly produce anything nowadays. Our service, without a digital infastructure is not worth much either. I suppose the wages of the truly unskilled service worker in a non-digital world would be governed by Ricardo’s Iron Law of Wages, that being the minimum necessary to prevent starvation.
That number will probably be close in urban centers, most of the rest of us will just be inconvenienced. We will have power back on a few weeks one way or the other.
> Correct. But ... 90%?
In the big cities, that may be true.
Out in the country, we have a fighting chance.
Ammo will be the new currency.
expert testimony = a Democrat . Saying surrender now and pay up ?
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