Posted on 09/09/2009 8:34:08 AM PDT by Fennie
The federal government is doing "nothing" to protect against an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack that could wipe out American civilization, Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, a leading expert on the subject, tells Newsmax.
For only $200 million to $400 million, the government could protect a key element of the power grid to keep electrical power from being wiped out for years, according to Dr. Pry, a former staff member of the congressional Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack.
Yet neither Republicans nor Democrats have been willing to spend that small sum, says Pry, who is president EMPACT America, which is meeting in Niagara Falls, N.Y. this week to spotlight the scandal.
A single nuclear bomb exploded over the Midwest would generate an electromagnetic pulse that would destroy the chips that are the heart of every electronic device. While military and intelligence networks may be shielded against EMP, most of the rest of the country's technological infrastructure is not.
An EMP attack would wipe out personal computers and the internet. Cars would not start, gasoline pumps would not work, and airplanes could not take off.
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Very astute analysis, imho.
Been too long since I read those passages.
Thanks.
YOU HAVE NO CLUE! YOU HAVE FALLEN VICTIM TO THE LIEEESSSSS!!!!!
EMP itself is a fictional construct intended to scare us and make us hide cell phones in microwave ovens.
Father, help us in our day, in the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen
‘Barbarians’ the people surviving would become ...
if so ...
and allowed it (circumstances) would destroy all moral ethics. Which it would quickly do.
D00d. The chinstrap goes in the front. Back to the drawing board for you!
It has been said that I spend too much time therein. :)
Peace, FRiend.
YOu too.
The OT I spend the most time is is from Psalms to the end.
I lent the book
ONE SECOND AFTER
by Forstchen
to my coworker and his wife, they just finished it, and they were quite sobered to think ‘THIS COULD REALLY HAPPEN’.
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