Posted on 09/25/2011 1:30:34 PM PDT by IbJensen
Most Americans do not know this, but a single EMP attack could potentially wipe out most of the electronics in the United States and instantly send this nation back to the 1800s.
If a nuclear bomb was exploded high enough in the atmosphere over the middle part of the country, the electromagnetic pulse would fry electronic devices from coast to coast. The damage would be millions of times worse than 9/11. Just imagine a world where nobody has power, most cars will not start, the Internet has been fried, the financial system is offline indefinitely, nobody can make any phone calls and virtually all commerce across the entire country is brought to a complete stop. » If you like this article, please subscribe to our daily newsletter
Life-After-An-EMP-Attack-No-Power-No-Food-No-Transportation-No-Banking-And-No-Internet-250x150A nation that does not know how to live without technology would be almost entirely stripped of it at that point. Yes, this could really happen. An EMP attack is America's "Achilles heel", and everyone around the world knows it. It is only a matter of time before someone uses an EMP weapon against us, and at this point we are pretty much completely unprepared.
The sad thing is that we are spending hundreds of billions of dollars hunting down "terrorists" in caves on the other side of the globe and we have been told that because of "national security" it is necessary for our private areas to be touched before we are allowed to get on an airplane, but our government is doing essentially nothing to address what is perhaps our biggest security vulnerability.
What would you and your neighbors do if the power went out and it did not ever come back on? What would you do if an EMP attack happened in the middle of the winter and you suddenly were not able to heat your home any longer? What would you do if all the electronics in your car got fried and you simply could not drive anywhere? What would you do if all the supermarkets in your area shut down because food could not be transported across the country anymore? What would you do if you were suddenly unable to call your family and friends for help? What would you do if you were suddenly unable to get the medicine that you needed? What would you do if your debit cards and credit cards simply did not work any longer and you could not get any of your money out of the bank? What would you do if all of these things happened all at once?
A single EMP attack would be the worst disaster that the United States has ever seen by far. An electromagnetic pulse could potentially fry the vast majority of all the microchips in the United States. In an instant, nearly all of our electronic devices would be rendered useless.
Yes, the federal government knows all about this. The following excerpt is from an April 2008 report by the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack....
“The consequences of lack of food, heat (or air conditioning), water, waste disposal, medical, police, fire fighting support, and effective civil authority would threaten society itself.”
Most of us have become completely and totally dependent on electricity and technology. Without it, most of us would be in huge trouble.
The following is how an article in the Wall Street Journal described the potential consequences of an EMP attack....
No American would necessarily die in the initial attack, but what comes next is potentially catastrophic. The pulse would wipe out most electronics and telecommunications, including the power grid. Millions could die for want of modern medical care or even of starvation since farmers wouldn't be able to harvest crops and distributors wouldn't be able to get food to supermarkets. Commissioner Lowell Wood calls EMP attack a "giant continental time machine" that would move us back more than a century in technology to the late 1800s.
It wouldn't be so bad if we had the knowledge and the infrastructure to live the way that they did back in the 1800s, but today that is simply not the case.
Dr. William Graham was Ronald Reagan’s science adviser and the chairman of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack. Dr. Graham believes that in the event of a large scale EMP attack, the vast majority of Americans would either freeze, starve or die from disease.
Food Storage SystemAccording to Graham, in the aftermath of an EMP attack life in America "would probably be something that you might imagine life to be like around the late 1800s but with several times the population we had in those days, and without the ability of the country to support and sustain all those people."
Would you be able to survive?
All of those big bank accounts may never be able to be recovered after an EMP attack. Your money might be instantly fried out of existence.
The following is what Graham believes would happen to the financial system in the event of an EMP attack....
“Most financial records are stored electronically. ATMs, which depend upon both power and telecommunications, would not be available; banks, which try to back up records but in general aren’t strongly aware of the EMP problem, would face the problem of unprotected storage and computer systems”
This is the danger of having a financial system that is so dependent on technology. We may wake up one day and find that all the money is gone.
But if an EMP attack actually happened, the biggest concern for most of us would be trying to figure out how to survive.
The president of the Center for Security Policy, Frank Gaffney, is convinced that a single EMP attack could result in the deaths of the vast majority of the population of the United States....
"Within a year of that attack, nine out of 10 Americans would be dead, because we can't support a population of the present size in urban centers and the like without electricity"
Are you starting to get a feel for the scope of the problem?
The sad thing is that so much could be done to protect this country from an EMP attack.
Right now, most vital U.S. military infrastructure has at least some protection from an EMP attack.
But the general population has been left completely and totally vulnerable.
It has been estimated that the entire power grid could potentially be protected for about 20 billion dollars. Considering the fact that we have spent over 400 billion dollars in Afghanistan, I think that we could afford it.
We have spent our national security dollars very, very badly and someday it is going to come back to bite us in the rear end.
Right now, other nations around the world are working feverishly to develop EMP weapons. The following is from a statement by Dr. Peter Vincent Pry to the United States Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security on March 8th, 2005....
Russian and Chinese military scientists in open source writings describe the basic principles of nuclear weapons designed specifically to generate an enhanced-EMP effect, that they term "Super-EMP" weapons. "Super-EMP" weapons, according to these foreign open source writings, can destroy even the best protected U.S. military and civilian electronic systems.
But it is not just Russia and China that have been developing "Super-EMP" weapons. According to Newsmax, it is believed that North Korea may have tested a "Super-EMP" weapon back in 2009....
North Korea’s last round of tests, conducted in May 2009, appear to have included a “super-EMP” weapon, capable of emitting enough gamma rays to disable the electric power grid across most of the lower 48 states
Remember, all it would take is one strategically placed EMP attack to wipe out this nation.
But an EMP weapon is not the only danger that can produce this type of effect. The truth is that a really bad geomagnetic storm could also potentially produce almost as much damage.
This is something that everyone knows is one of our biggest vulnerabilities and it is something that we can make preparations for.
Yet the Bush administration and the Obama administration have just stood there and have done nothing.
Our idiocy is astounding.
General Eugene Habiger, the former head of U. S. Strategic Command, has said the following about the possibility of an EMP attack in the future....
“It is not a matter of if, it is a matter of when.”
Remember, this is something that could cause millions times more damage than 9/11 did.
Instead of molesting old ladies at airports and chasing goat herders around the mountains of Afghanistan, perhaps we should be addressing our largest security vulnerabilities.
But that would require using some common sense. Sadly, common sense seems to be in very short supply in Washington D.C. these days.
So if the government is not going to do anything about it, that means that it is up to you to prepare yourself and your family. This world is becoming very unstable and disasters can strike at any time.
We all saw what happened after Hurricane Katrina. The government response was a nightmare. An EMP attack would be millions of times worse and the federal government probably would not even be able to get you and your family any assistance.
You would truly be on your own.
So are you ready?
This is yet another reason why the number of preppers in the United States is exploding. A lot of people can see how the world is changing and they understand that the federal government is not going to come through for them when the chips are down.
An EMP attack could end life as we know it at any time.
It is a glaring security vulnerability and the entire world knows that it is there.
I hope that you are getting ready, because the government certainly is not.
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Well, as long a Gilligan, the Professor and Mary Anne are around, we’ll do ok!
That’s a nice looking rig. Best to you!
“I think that’s the concern over the Iranian nuclear reactor and missile programs. Mahmoud Ahmanutjob and friends do not think logically or rationally, and might be willing to loose an EMP nuke over the skies of the “Great Satan” in the belief that the Mahdi would then emerge from his cave to protect them and usher in an Islamic paradise over all the world.”
And it does not look like anyone is going to do anything about it except bend over.
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“...what do you suppose the response would be?”
You know, I’m sure that the 250 million Americans that would die in the ensuing 12 months would die with a great, big smile on their emaciated, diseased faces knowing that North Korea or Iran (or both) had been turned into smoking, radioactive parking lots...not.
Fact is, if you are dealing with a dying madman with nothing to lose, or a religious fanatic who believes that he will usher in the messianic era, by destroying the US as a functioning society, the deterrence is a meaningless concept.
You and this essay lack. Lack greatly. Really.
Go find what you lack.
>>Could occur in the nation’s financial capitol. And doesn’t require a nuke. Or it could occur other places.
Read the original post. It was about the scenario where a massive EMP knocks out all electronics in the US, plunging us into a 19th century nightmare without power, water, medicines, transportation, etc. I agree that the regional or even localized EMP attack is a real likelihood, but the “One Second After” scenario is just too difficult for anyone to pull off.
An attack on DC would be catastrophic for the reason you state. But those are problems that can be handled. We can deal with welfare zombies rioting in the streets because the EBT cards stopped getting refilled. That’s a lot easier than handling the loss of monetary systems, power, water, etc.
“They don’t have enough firepower to take the US on militarily. They will have enough to detonate a nuclear device high over the CONUS.”
The ultimate in assymetrical warfare: lob an EMP-tuned nuke to about 250 miles over the US from a barge that can’t be traced and which is sunk immediately after launching its cargo.
“Sources? Based on everything I’ve read, you are wildly wrong. “
And Globull Warming is real, too, huh?
When someone says “my sources” I usually know they mean they “read it on the Internet.”
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Na uh! See, the EMP will stop everything even the wind see, cause like you know it stops everything! Even the sun will stop! and everything will go dark and were all gunna die and everything like ya know and your boat will just sink cause emp will make the oceans not work and stuff cause like my brother i mean my sources on the internet told me it wud and um yer compus will stop working to
I don’t lack anything, but it is apparent that you do.
Really.
“”more like a 500 lbs one”
More like a 50lb annoying black bear.
“It will destroy enough, and “enough” is all it takes.”
Not even close. Not even the military is worried about EMP, only those academics looking to get grant monies even say much about it.
Here's a collection of some detailed info from various sources, most of which matches my basic understanding from USN electronics training. If - big if - it happens all the major cities and a lot of the smaller ones are toast. Plan accordingly.
Try it for a month - no water, no 'shopping' at a grocery store, no replacement bullets for your gun, no electricity, medicine, car, radio, TV, chainsaw, electric/gas powered tools, fertilizers, pesticides or computer. An ax and hand tools. It could be interesting.
“You think 9/11 cause chaos, wait until most of the 8,000 aircraft in the sky fall out of the sky all at once. “
You play too many video games, like Call of Duty: MOdern Warfare 2 where they have a scene with all kinds of aircraft come crashing down and solider yells, “EMP!” ROTFLMAO!!!
You kids and your dillusions of drama.
Aircraft wouldn’t even close to even noticing an EMP attack. Their systems are hardened against even a lighten strike and you want to claim EMP, which you know nothing about, will slip right on in and damage the airplane. Good luck with that Survivalist Porn Fantasy.
“You must be new to electricity. “
Backatcha. Seriously, you want to equate picking up weak AM signals with destructive voltage spikes? Seriously?
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