Author Topic: ELECTRICAL MAGNETIC PULSE (EMP) BOMB (Read 3475 times)

JuanDiego · « **on:** February 05, 2013, 12:30:16 PM »

I just heard part of a speech at the Heritage Foundation talking about how unprepared the US is for an EMP to hit us and how our enemies know how unprepared we are. They said it would put us back into the 19th Century overnight. If the bomb hit the east coast it would knock out 70% of the US. No cars, no lights, no heat, etc. The speaker was Michael Maloof talking about his recent book A Nation Forsaken.

This is what is on the Heritage Foundation site:

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A few years ago, a congressional commission went into considerable depth on the consequences to our electricity-dependent infrastructures - not only to the power grid itself, but also to telecommunications, the banking and finance system, the transportation system that delivers our food and water and the fuel needed for our homes as well as the military systems that maintain our national security. Congress, however, has basically ignored its own commission report, wasting valuable time in confronting this critical threat.

Maloof argues that, while an electromagnetic pulse event on our civilian infrastructure could be serious, it can be managed if government at the federal, state and local levels gives appropriate priority to the preventative action that is possible to lessen the impact of an EMP event as well as to recover from it.

Cera · « **Reply #1 on:** March 31, 2013, 06:16:09 PM »

NK has capability of emp
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/19/north-korea-emp-attack-could-destroy-us-now/?page=all

Iuvenalis · « **Reply #2 on:** March 31, 2013, 08:43:51 PM »

There's a fiction book that describes probably most accurately what would happen in the event of an EMP, "One Second After"

It's pretty readable. There isn't much the average person can do. Unless you're rural and have a subsistence farm of vegetables and animals and they graze and eat local foo(s) only that do not require longhaul trucking for delivery, you're so interdependent on electronic intrastructure you're pretty much out of luck.

You'd have to faraday 'cage' everything you wanted to remain functioning after such an event.

Most of even our defense infrastructure is no longer TEMPEST hardened post-Reagan

PerEvangelicaDicta · « **Reply #3 on:** April 01, 2013, 12:17:35 AM »

You don't know who to trust anymore.
Maloof 's background is shaky at best, neck deep with Rumsfeld and the pro israel camp. This info coming from him sounds like a psyop.

Iuvenalis · « **Reply #4 on:** April 01, 2013, 05:13:24 AM »

Quote from: PerEvangelicaDicta

You don't know who to trust anymore.
Maloof 's background is shaky at best, neck deep with Rumsfeld and the pro israel camp. This info coming from him sounds like a psyop.

Ive looked into this and it is more or less what they say: we are woefully unprepared.

It would be chaos.