Posted on 06/20/2011 10:09:45 AM PDT by justlittleoleme
North Koreas 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, says Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, a former CIA nuclear weapons analyst and president of EMPact America, a citizens lobbying group.
Samore, who handles arms control and non-proliferation issues, warned that additional strong sanctions will be imposed on the North with the support of Russia and China."
North Koreas nuclear tests have been dismissed as failures by some analysts because of their low explosive yield. But Dr. Pry believes they bore the signature of the Russian-designed super-EMP weapon, capable of emitting more gamma radiation than a 25-megaton nuclear weapon.
Rep. Trent Franks, who authored the SHIELD Act, warned of catastrophic consequences should Congress fail to act.
The U.S. society and economy are so critically dependent upon the availability of electricity that a significant collapse of the grid, precipitated by a major natural or man-made EMP event, could result in catastrophic civilian casualties, he said. This vulnerability, if left unaddressed, could have grave, societal altering consequences.
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Thanks for the recommend & loaner - am reading Lights Out right now.
Would also like to read the One Second After book, but respect the Lights Out author as a “known” Survival Monkey.
At some point I’d like to get my hands on Ferfal’s book. Sure, I’ve read his writings online, but I’d like to give him the support he’s earned. We aren’t that far from going the way of Argentina, I fear.
Cool:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime
Starfish Prime caused an electromagnetic pulse 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, setting off numerous burglar alarms and damaging a telephone company microwave link. The EMP-damaged microwave link shut down telephone calls from Kauai to the other Hawaiian islands.[4]
You forgot 21- People, the other other white meat.
We have devices on the ground to nullify such a strike for the most part, kind of like grouding a house.
They could do some damage but not lots of it.
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