Posted on 04/19/2015 10:57:56 AM PDT by DanMiller
No one knows how good an EMP attack would be—would it black out the nation—or just part of it? Would it cause collapse or just make America vindictive. In any case—subs at sea would launch a counter-strike on any nation that attacked us—or where the bomb came from. Any nation would ceast to exist, becoming a place of ruines, death and radiation. No rational people want to die—so an attack might not be coming. Even if Iran gets the bomb—will they hit Israel—and face obliteration?
Actually we’ve got plenty of idea of how an EMP would be. We’ve measured them, we know how they work, we know what kind of electronics are vulnerable. It isn’t some great mystery, we’ve done, and continue to do (under ground with high tech “cheats”), a lot of nuclear tests.
And as you point out, even if it was extremely effective we’ve got plenty of retaliation force it couldn’t possibly effect. That was after all the whole point of mutually assured destruction. Nobody can take us out hard enough that we can’t take them out too.
What we know so far from the facts.
* Iran can detonate nuclear weapons in the ionosphere over the U.S.A. (see news about Iranian satellite launches in links posted earlier in the thread). So can North Korea. The two nations have been cooperating with each other in their nuclear weapons buildups while getting technical aid and equipment from Russia and China.
* Such high altitude EMP strikes are obviously planned by our enemies to shut down our satellites, communications facilities, power grids and transportation before attacking our military installations and cities with nuclear weapons.
* Iran is willing to take millions of casualties while attacking us (see comments of Ahmadinejad about the “Mahdi” and history of Iran’s casualties and Iranian families’ acceptance of martyrdom of their sons in the Eight Year War with Iraq).
* Iran is not alone in its effort. There are also North Korea, and the suppliers of both nations: Russia and China.
Our own Secretary of Defense and top Admiral during the Bush Administration both cautioned against attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities with conventional weapons. Their statements were revealing.
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