The trouble is our radar has a big hole in it, and all the North Korean and Iranian launches have been designed to exploit that big hole.
Everybody needs to read the article at http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/understanding-north-korea-and-iran?f=must_reads#ixzz2MBnGqAqR to know what may be going on here.
The talk of small cutting-edge nukes fits exactly what this expert is saying. It also fits what Ahmadinejad has been smugly saying about the US going down within the next year or two.
We’re talking about a *super* EMP that would destroy not only the 60 million that the US government estimated within the first 6 months but 200 million. If the US military has equipment that is designed to survive this kind of attack, it would make sense that DHS is bringing in military equipment and buying body bags and caskets, and lots and lots of ammunition.
I’ve been fearing there would be a massive attack of some kind; didn’t know whether it would be financial, EMP, or biological WMD’s. Who knows, could be all of them. I was thinking of an Iranian EMP launched from Venezuela, but it sounds like neither Iran nor North Korea NEED a launch site any more, if I’m understanding correctly. There’s a small package in orbit somewhere, that could be activated and directed right at the middle of the US; the first any of us would know about it would be when the lights go out and no electronics work.
Somebody correct me if I’m not understanding this right.
If you are either Russia or China, the one thing you want to try and do is preserve North America after you attack it.
It is prime global real estate, no matter how you look at it.
The idea would be extermination, nor annihilation. The problem with biologicals is that it takes too long. The problem with chemical weapons is that they leave a mess behind.
What nobody, and I mean nobody, has talked about lately is the Cobalt Bomb.
This is what scared the bejeebers out of the Soviets. “The ultimate capitalist weapon, as it is devoted to the extermination of people and the preservation of capital,” is pretty close to what Kruschev called it.
It’s a pretty sweet device, in that you can roll into town about a week after you’ve dropped it. You dig your mass graves and clean up all the spoiled food, and you’ve got yourself billions and trillions in capital development you can then move into.
EMP would cause a lot more damage than any invading army would want to cause. Too much in the way of melted circuits that you can’t readily source after you’ve invaded.
All this presupposes you want to preserve NA for your own purposes.
The issue with wiping us out NA with nukes is that it likely would cause extinction for the folks launching the attack in the first place.
If it were me, and I wasn’t as big as the US and didn’t have as much money to spend, I’d have spent what I have on anti-satellite weapons tech.
The goal would be to disable, not obliterate, the satellite.
That would be enough, probably, if you coupled that with a decapitating attack with cobalt bombs and EMP on key locations in the US.
Even the Chinese are smart enough now to understand you don’t want to litter earth’s orbit with the wreckage of space craft.
The effect is like that of the old video game ‘Asteroids’. If you break up to many of the big slow bolders too soon, you can’t avoid the small fast debris that results and you end up being blown up by them.