Posted on 05/12/2017 10:11:28 AM PDT by RArtfulogerDodger
There are many who seem to routinely poo-poo the idea North Korea can field an EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) nuclear bomb attack on America. The generally uninformed, often-lying, US media does it all the time.
And apparently well meaning bloggers and posters, seem to believe they have the answers.
Some of them, “seem to know more,” than even retired CIA director Robert James Woolsey Jr, and another expert, US Congressional EMP Task Force director Dr. Peter Vincent Pry.
And yet, these pundits and players, don’t know. They typically concentrate on the “unreliability” of North Korean missiles, the lack of reliable re-entry vehicles, smallish nuclear detonations, and they cite numerous missile “failures.”
Well, North Korea doesn’t need any of those items to execute a successful EMP attack on America. They don’t need missiles, launches, or re-entry vehicles, and the largest an EMP bomb has to be is apparently just 10 kilotons, detonated at an altitude of around 70 miles. They already have what they need.
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MOV’s. Metal oxide validators.
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Those are the “circuit breakers” you find in cheap surge suppressors/lightning suppressors right? The powdered metal just melts and disconnects the circuit...
Y2K could have been a disaster. We had to fix a lot of shit before. It was an untold success story in technology.
Got eet
Agreed. But by the story being untold, while the media scare continued right up to 1 Jan, the public was left with the perception that “the experts” like to scream a lot over nothing.
And I agree with that. the media created the expectation that we would all suffer, the world would collapse. Y2k perception after was it was a big nothing. false alarm. The amount of work that went into making a big nothing when the clock hit midnight wasn’t even recognized.
Little ones I suppose do that. But the ones I am referring to take 6,000 volts repeatedly and clamp it off to ground. The ones we use on navy ships above the waterline for EMP hardening.
So it’s more or less like the “lightning arrestor” I have on my main and sub panel then...
I worked for a major international retailer at the time and I know how much money and time we spent making sure nothing bad happened to our multiple computer systems. It was a tremendous effort.
I’d like to say there is a similar effort going on to protect US systems from an EMP attack or Carrington event, but I don’t see it.
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