The 'doomsday' weapon that could wipe out 90% of Americans

Daily Mail ^ | 10/5/15 | Mark Prigg

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Controversial tech boss and presidential candidate John McAfee has warned a 'doomsday' electronic weapon could wipe out 90% of Americans and urged politicians to is the number one threat facing the country.

McAfee, who recently announced he is running in 2016, wrote in a blog for Business Insider: 'Experts agree that an all out cyber attack, beginning with an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack on our electronic infrastructure, would wipe out 90% of the human population of this country within two years of the attack.

'That means the death of 270 million people within 24 months after the attack.'

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[Kartographer]

Transform is more sturdy than a battle tank?

[Oztrich Boy]

Puts the 5 to 20 VW emmissions kill in perspective don’t it?

[Sasparilla]

Here’s what the Federation of American Scientists have to say about EMP attack.

fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/emp.htm

[MarkL]

A nuclear weapon detonation has an EMP as a side effect.

Thanks to Obama, we’ll be seeing an Iranian built nuke come into one of our major ports, or even in a containers coming up from Mexico, to be distributed throughout the country.

Mark

[SaveFerris]

yep