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Congress warned North Korean EMP attack would kill '90% of all Americans'
The Washington Examiner ^ | Oct 12, 2017 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 10/12/2017 3:57:51 PM PDT by bitt

Congress was warned Thursday that North Korea is capable of attacking the U.S. today with a nuclear EMP bomb that could indefinitely shut down the electric power grid and kill 90 percent of "all Americans" within a year.

At a House hearing, experts said that North Korea could easily employ the "doomsday scenario" to turn parts of the U.S. to ashes.

In calling on the Pentagon and President Trump to move quickly to protect the grid, the experts testified that an explosion of a high-altitude nuclear bomb delivered by a missile or satellite "could be to shut down the U.S. electric power grid for an indefinite period, leading to the death within a year of up to 90 percent of all Americans."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; bedard; electromagneticpulse; emp; grid; nk; nkemp; nknukes; nkoutofcontrol; third100days; trumpasia; trumpnatlsecurity; whataload
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To: bitt

Someone get a shovel ,before this pile gets way too high


61 posted on 10/12/2017 4:43:33 PM PDT by butlerweave (it's the children are)
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To: blueunicorn6

Don't forget the Orange Crush.

62 posted on 10/12/2017 4:43:47 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bitt
Spock, we're doomed. Image and video hosting by TinyPic
63 posted on 10/12/2017 4:43:50 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Bryanw92

..., I think they’d just kill each other even in the unaffected areas if just 1/4 of the country was affected...

We saw a fistfight at a gas line in a town of 1,200 people during a gas “shortage” on Y2K day. No place is immune.


64 posted on 10/12/2017 4:45:59 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: taxcontrol
Much cheaper to shoot down the missiles though.

Much easier to off the nut case threatening several countries.

65 posted on 10/12/2017 4:47:59 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: Sasparilla

Some folks need to read ‘30 seconds after’.

It is a good novel about life after an EMP attack.

Highly recommended.


66 posted on 10/12/2017 4:50:20 PM PDT by sleepwalker (The future is so bright, I gotta wear shades)
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To: bitt

Texas has 10% of the population of the US?


67 posted on 10/12/2017 4:52:53 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: bitt
Experts? What experts? Who are they?

I balked the instant I read “kill 90%” of Americans within a year. I see this as a scare tactic at best.

I could believe 90% of inner city rats perhaps. lol

68 posted on 10/12/2017 4:55:15 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: bitt
Interestingly, the Georgia Guidestones specify an optimum world population of 500 million which just happens to work out to a 93% decrease from the 7.6 billion level as of Oct 2017.
69 posted on 10/12/2017 5:03:08 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: All

And I bet they said it like that would be a bad thing.

I call it improving the gene pool.

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70 posted on 10/12/2017 5:03:35 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Windflier

People are trading on old information. We have multiple transformer factories in the USA. Sheesh. I work less than 10 miles from the biggest one, in Alabama.


71 posted on 10/12/2017 5:03:42 PM PDT by ImaGraftedBranch (by reading this, you have collapsed my wave function. Thanks, pal.)
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To: freedomson
>>A North Korean Satellite, lol!<<

I wouldn't laugh too loud. NK has two satellites currently orbiting around the earth with paths that take them over the U.S.. What if they placed a warhead on one of these?

Not saying it's fact, juss sayin...what if?

72 posted on 10/12/2017 5:04:08 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: bitt

An EMP attack is designed to knock out electronics. Electrical equipment will be fine. If you don’t know the difference between electrical and electronic start googling.


73 posted on 10/12/2017 5:08:01 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Falcon4.0
Golly Gee. It’s to bad we can’t EMP them first.

From the satellite photos I've seen posted here their government already did it.

In other words there's nothing to EMP.
74 posted on 10/12/2017 5:08:32 PM PDT by RedMonqey (` Res Ipsa Loquitor.)
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To: bitt

A lot of Americans will be killing each other during that time.


75 posted on 10/12/2017 5:09:19 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: marktwain
If you knock down the grid and mass communication for a year, over nearly all of the U.S., then 90% casualties are likely.

Ridiculous. You can't possible believe that?

76 posted on 10/12/2017 5:11:07 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: airborne

I’m sorry to say but you’re probability right


77 posted on 10/12/2017 5:13:53 PM PDT by piroque ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
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To: bitt

Americans have lived without running water and electricity. They were called your great great grandparents.


78 posted on 10/12/2017 5:15:45 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ImaGraftedBranch
We have multiple transformer factories in the USA. Sheesh. I work less than 10 miles from the biggest one, in Alabama.

Well, is the information true or not?

Does it take eighteen months on average to build a large transformer, or was that allegation incorrect?

79 posted on 10/12/2017 5:23:36 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: kaehurowing

I read that these are also manufactured in Germany.


80 posted on 10/12/2017 5:24:18 PM PDT by Constitutional Patriot (Socialism is the cancer of humanity.)
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