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 ...
Reminds me of the scene from the TV show “Jericho” where the kids were using dead cell phones for stickball.
Supposedly after an EMP hit us only 10% of the entire US population would survive one year later.
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The Mueller investigation would still be going on.
The MAD doctrine has protected the nuclear club countries from an exchange since the 50’s. Two or three nukes launched from a freighter in the Gulf of Mexico using old scuds would cripple the USA and result in tens of millions of eventual deaths. The scariest part is we possibly wouldn’t know who did it. With this scenario you lose your deterrent capability because you can’t retaliate.
I read that book. The premise was interesting (a better book, IMHO, is “Alas Babylon,” which was written in, I think, the 1950s or early 1960s); however, Forstchen’s habit of having his characters break into uncontrolled weeping over singing old show tunes and other such maudlin swill ruined the story for me.
“Anybody know anything about the group that sponsored this? “
I don’t even know their name.
But you can bet they have found a way to get paid from it.
There is no plausible man-made EMP that would take out the US, or the entire east coast for that matter.
Hundreds of megatons at 300 miles up? Maybe.
But nobody has bombs that big and very, very few have the lift capacity to get it that high. Certainly not the Norklandians or Iran.
But an enormous solar flare could do it. I stress enormous.
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“but any nation with an icbm and tactical nuke could destroy us or any other country with one or two EMPs”
Nonsense.
Read it.
Nor much on my interests but did have some.
Most large cities only have weeks worth of supplies, NYC has only 3 days. The Gimme dat zombies will be hungry.
Use of an EMP weapon will trigger a full on nuclear war ... unless a Democrat is President, then we will just absorb it and apologize.
Steam powered cars, horse drawn carriages, bikes, trikes, and velomobiles. Of course these would be limited in range to the endurance of the motive power.
Nothing personal but that book was an exercise fear mongering with no real basis in science at all
So the power goes out for a week
more like years. the turbines are made in Norway I think - they are usually back ordered by a number of years ... which is how long it will take to get some ordered, then there is shipping and installation so add more years ...
That they want more money?
Alas Babylon was definitely a better written book. I found the Forstchen scenario more terrifying and a more plausible potential threat today.
Nuclear emp effects require long lines to attenuate the voltage surge.
A few of the declared nuclear powers have the capability to possibly do some damaged on a regional basis but cars, generators, small electronics are not going to just be zapped/
Correct.
Sorry my understanding is that there is a Cascade effect if the nuke detonates over the atmosphere. So a regular sized nuke can have a continental effect.
“Sorry my understanding is that there is a Cascade effect if the nuke detonates over the atmosphere. “
That must be another BS term developed by those hoping to get paid due to the ignorance of most people about nukes and EMP.
How do you reset it? The infrastructure is wrecked. The US has locomotives stock piled for this type of calamity but you have to clear the burnt out locomotives first and the trains the were pulling. That takes time that the cities don’t have.
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