Mine aren't.
Posted on 11/30/2018 12:51:24 PM PST by BenLurkin
The report, titled, “Electromagnetic Defense Task Force,” and the product of a mostly classified summit of officials from 40 agencies just outside of Washington earlier this year, is a forceful call for a new focus on preparing for either an enemy EMP attack or a natural hit such as a solar storm.
While it is focused on the devastating impact an EMP hit would have on the military, it appears to support a congressional warning that up to 90 percent of the population on the East Coast would die in a year of an attack that would dismantle or interfere with electricity, transportation, food processing, and healthcare.
Consider just some of the warnings in the report from the United States Air Force Air University and the Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education.
Figuring out just which country launched an attack would be difficult since certain weapons could be delivered in a satellite.
It also noted the development of the 5G mobile network and how it will run communications and why it must be protected, especially since China is the biggest investor in its development.
“Because control of 5G is roughly equivalent to control of the Internet, open 5G is critical to freedom and free-market economics. Meanwhile, access to the 5G-millimeter wave bandwidth will be critical to operations in all war-fighting domains, in particular, space command & control,” said the white paper.
Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast, the commander of Air Education and Training Command, said, “As electromagnetic technologies fuse in new and often dangerous ways, it’s critical that the military and industry make honest evaluations of present and future conflict states to ensure we’re proactive rather than reactive.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
More on nuclear EMP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_electromagnetic_pulse
Young men without families to provide for will have a mobility advantage in a SHTF scenario.
We have satellites tracking EVERY missile launch in the world.
An Iranian nuke would not be large enough to cover the entire US. It would need to be bigger and higher for the cone to cover the continent.
Iran would cease to exist.
They are bad guys. But they are not stupid.
“So the power goes out for a week.”
How about out for a month, 6 months, a year or forever?
” I believe EMP is a more credible threat than the nuclear exchange we’ve all feared since the 50s.”
An all out nuclear war would probably doom the planet to years long nuclear winter but any nation with an icbm and tactical nuke could destroy us or any other country with one or two EMPs. To me that makes Iran and N. Korea more dangerous than Russia or China.
An EMP attack would simply be the beginning of a nuclear exchange.
A solar EMP event concerns me the most.
Supposedly after an EMP hit us only 10% of the entire US population would survive one year later.
I know people here want to talk about what tough guys and pioneer gals they are and can rough it the rest of their lives, but seriously???
First of all, you all would be WITHOUT Free Republic!!!
And that ain’t gonna be a 2-3 day outage (and some of you go insane over just THAT much), but probably forever.
For those in the South, NO AIR CONDITIONING.
And for me, a type 1 diabetic, no insulin.
I’ll die.
Modern life sucks, but it also keeps so many of us alive, happy and prosperous.
Mine aren't.
Maybe N Korea and Iran getting closer to having deliverable icbms and nukes is worrying them.
Bah, I see Backup Iron Sights. You’re good to go!
Modern cars wouldn’t start.
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Solar flare EMP can take down some the power grid but a nuclear EMP will destroy not only that but most of all electronic devices. Can you imagine the suicide rate in the country once folks realize their smart phones are dead forever?
OK, now you have me officially FREAKED OUT!!!
“If the Carrington Event happened today, it would destroy civilization.”
Then the leftists would have nothing to do.
SEXY! SEXY!
At this point it’s most important to counter their use against the military. Ships, planes and ground units.
EMP weapons can be non-nuclear.
But everyone is hot for nukes used on civilians.
(Maybe I should read this report and learn something about military concerns and measures to adapt...)
This comment is true. The country must be “reset” in order to save it.
They pop up using an electronic solonoid.
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