I figure this is mostly fantasy. In Hawaii, simply a scheme to bring federal money to the state. Can anyone show anywhere a EMP gun or weapon or pulse has been tested or used? While it might, if used, bring a city to a halt, people with guns will not be slowed down, howitzers will still fire.
They will mostly fire blind as there will be nothing but binoculars to find a target. Nork will be little effected as they already live in the dark ages.
I’ve always questioned the effectiveness of EMP attacks. I think the damage would be very limited. Celluar service, radio communications, maybe. I don’t even see vehicles being affected much. Not saying it wouldn’t be bad, just not nearly the “doomsday” thing it has been hyped to be. Just my opinion.
It’s a long-observed consequence of high altitude nuclear blasts, first noticed when Hawaii suffered extensive electrical disruption & damage from a burst about 1500 miles away.
I doubt EMP would have underwater effects.
early 1960’s, STARFISH PRIME
There was mino EMP damage to Hawaii, from down range US nuclear test, Starfish Prime of a 1.6 megaton nuclear device exploded 250miles up at a 10degree angle 1400nm W-SW of Hawaii. 300 streetlights went out and a radiotelephone link was shut down. 998 miles from the center blast 250 miles up. This was in 1962, and has been used by HI to justify all kinds of federal spending for civilian infrastructure.
Actuality is the the US Gov military sites are in need of hardening, comm links and such (or so it is said). EMP generated directly overhead would create much more damage than the 1962 atmospheric test, if done with weapon designed to specifically do this.
“One Second After”— William Fortschen foreward by Newt Gingrich. Firearms will still work. Ammo would have to be hand loaded.
Check out Operation Starfish Prime, 1962, near Hawaii: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/09/the-50th-anniversary-of-starfish-prime-the-nuke-that-shook-the-world/#.WRhVSGjyuUk)..it is a possibility, in fact more likely than the West Coast. If on an attack trajectory (it was a high altitude test), the latest missile test could have reached 2500 miles. It is 4600 miles from North Korea, but about 6000 miles to the West Coast targets. Therefore, if he wanted to screw up our logistics for the Pacific, Hawaii would be a better target, just as it was on Dec. 7th, 1941, in my opinion.
Can anyone show anywhere a EMP gun or weapon or pulse has been tested or used?
http://www.businessinsider.com/first-us-test-emp-weapon-2016-11