They've done that calculation every census since 1790.
Posted on 08/08/2017 3:25:11 PM PDT by aposiopetic
North Korea is considering a plan to fire missiles at Guam, state media said.
A spokesman for North Korea's military told KCNA that it would carry out a pre-emptive operation if there were signs of U.S. provocation.....
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Great idea. These nincompoops are beyond description. Yes, I remember Madeline Not-at-allBright!
Why would the NORKs risk annihilation by attacking a lesser strategic US target? This is “rope a dope”. My guess is that NK knows they have only ONE chance before they are hit. Therefore, their real target will be South Korea which is easier and more immediate for them.
I take any threat by NK seriously. They’ve been collaborating with Iran for years.
Remember when John Kerry told us the world was a safer place because of the Iran nuke deal? In actually it made the world a more dangerous place and accelerated its race toward getting the nuclear bomb.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/11/113_98613.html
I take every threat by Iran and NK seriously, but how does this author know they ARE serious? No one knows that for sue, but the words are thick.
Why not?
If the target is a hardened command post or centrifuge factory, why not below ground?
Are we going to file an environmental impact statement before attacking?
If Starfish Prime were repeated today, but 250 miles over Plato, Missouri instead of Johnston Island, what would be the effect on the US?
Yes a situation like a hardened bunker a ground blast does the trick. I’m talking about mass destruction of a city. There are formulas for optimizing destruction that require air blasts.
Wars & rumors of wars.
Our redemption approaches!
AFAIK Starfish prime was primarily a ‘long-wire’ / long-antennae event, meaning more of an S3/E3 EMP event, maybe some S2/E3 pulse effects.
Can’t *really* know if it was also an S1/E1 transistor/IC killer since there weren’t any to speak of.
Strafish to my understanding was not as severe as often referred to. But nonetheless, it *did* happen as a result of the Starfish Prime test detonation, which occurred about 250 miles above the sea level, and ~1.4 +/- megatons.
While reports vary, here is one to chew on:
“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,[6] setting off numerous burglar alarms and damaging a telephone company microwave link.”
Vittitoe, Charles N., “Did High-Altitude EMP Cause the Hawaiian Streetlight Incident?” Sandia National Laboratories, June 1989, p. 5
Also this (very technical) — http://glasstone.blogspot.com/2006/03/emp-radiation-from-nuclear-space.html
Also, FWIW, the official DoD report entitled A “Quick Look” at the Technical Results of Starfish Prime published internally august 1962, now public domain [redacted] as a result of a 1989 FOIA request, did NOT discuss *any* effects outside of what was instrumented for the DoD aspects of the test. thus it makes NO mention of effects in Hawaii or elsewhere.
Starfish Prime was really a test to see if exoatmospheric bursts followed by lower altitude (80KM) bursts would aid penetration into enemy airspace by disrupting RADAR and comms. Per the DoD, the results were “less than anticipated” ... to the point of being militarily ineffective. Mostly because the results were (a) rather short lived, (b) not instrumented as best as planned, and (c) military hardening of the gear against EMP.
Lastly - take a look at this: http://www.futurescience.com/emp/E1-E2-E3.html
Tokyo is a lot closer than Guam with far less time to react. I am sure once NK starts this, they know they must inflict as much damage in a short time as possible.
Japan is a much better target in all those respects.
This could get interesting.
Boy that looks like a rural place. Reminds me of a place in Kansas; just a few unused buildings right on an east-west highway.
They've done that calculation every census since 1790.
That city name reminded me of Dana Plato. Wow what a disaster.
I was working in a pretty rural area when I had to go through places that some parts looked like ghost towns. Couldn’t always get a carrier signal on one of my mobile phones, neither.
Thanks!
and a lot of man made global warming in the Eastern Hemisphere
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