Too late I guess.
Mutually Assured Destruction is not a deterrent to Iran/Muslims.
Starfish Prime was a July 9, 1962 high-altitude nuclear test conducted by the United States, a joint effort of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the Defense Atomic Support Agency
Starfish Prime caused an electromagnetic pulse (EMP), which was far larger than expected, so much larger that it drove much of the instrumentation off scale, causing great difficulty in getting accurate measurements.
The Starfish Prime electromagnetic pulse also made those effects known to the public by causing electrical damage in Hawaii, about 1,445 kilometres (898 mi) away from the detonation point, knocking out about 300 streetlights, setting off numerous burglar alarms and damaging a telephone company microwave link. The EMP damage to the microwave link shut down telephone calls from Kauai to the other Hawaiian islands.[
How about we start preparing for this.
EMP doesn’t require a nuke. there are non-nuke EMP weapons in existence now.
Well, that was a whole lot of alarmism for not much payoff.
A small fission weapon will not produce widespread, devastating EMP. That requires much larger fusion weapon(s). NK is nowhere near possessing such a weapon, much less miniaturizing it and fitting it to a missile.
Here is a good article on the Soviet 300 KT thermonuclear EMP tests over the occupied USSR:
http://www.futurescience.com/emp/test184.html
Note that the 300 KT weapons were about ten times larger than the largest NK has tested.
“Then if a crisis comes up and if we decide to attack North Korea, Kim Jong Un can threaten our president and say, ‘Well, don’t do that because we are going to burn your whole country down...
Well then isn’t it TOO LATE TO ATTACK already?
We wont hit EVERY mobile launching pad in first strike ad a nuke will be in the air, incapable of being knocked out, and kill 90 percent of the American people.
Or so the article strongly asserts.
We could let China know that they will be considered an enemy target of our subs should that happen.
But again, if they’re already riding around, they could fry America AND China.
And we can’t defend against it.
Seems to impossible to believe but that’s what it says.
Alarmist nonsense.
An EMP bomb can grill some electronic devices (NOT electrical devices) in a small area. It can’t shutdown a whole region, let alone shutdown “permanently”, let alone all the USA.
If it was anywhere as powerful as hyped, then it would be criminal not to use it against ISIS’s internet and phone infrastructure. But it’s not.
Probably we should have created a strategic sub station reserve, but that's water under the bridge at this point.
At present only the USA, Russia and perhaps China can deploy an EMP weapon that would ‘shut down the entire US grid and take us back to the stone age’.
That said, the ‘grid’ is incredibly delicate, and can be taken down for a few hours or a few days locally and often regionally quite easily.
There is a dedicated little cadre of “EMP-deniers” on FR. If they’re not already on this thread, I’ll bet they will be soon.
We wouldn’t be able to post anything at freerepublic.com