[BobL]

The Neocons will tell you EMPs are nothing to worry about...and if they’re wrong, there won’t be anyone around to hold them accountable.

[silent majority rising]

I posted this because the discussions about EMP will become more obvious in the coming weeks and months. Iran believes that the Muslim Mahdi, or their equivalent of christianity’s Messiah, is present in the world, and can only destroy the US and Israel’s ability to make war by drastic asymmetric warfare. We are vulnerable because of our overconfidence and reliance on technology. It is just as important for the US to destroy Iran’s ability to make or get nuclear weapons as it is for Israel. The two countries that Iran has preached to utterly destroy are the ‘Little Satan’ Israel and the ‘big Satan’ United States. Their goal has never changed, and they will tell Trump anything (taqiyya) to string the US along until they have a weapon.

[rdcbn1]

the Starfish Prime detonation created a lot of damage. at a time when most of our electronics were still vacuum tubes and heavy duty switching gear and motor drives that more closely resembled a Frankenstein movie than the sophisticated micro electronics we have today. An EMP is going to do a lot more damage these days than it did in 1962.

[txeagle]

That moniker could easily be applied to several women I dates over the years.......

[Pontiac]

Mitigating EMP and GMD Risks for Power Grid Resilience

Risks posed by geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) events add challenges to an already complex power system environment. But they remain crucial to address. How prepared is the power grid to withstand these powerful natural and man-made disturbances?

It may be too late but it's not like we haven't know about this problem for 60 years.

[Pontiac]

Of course you don't need a nuclear weapon to generate an EMP.

Non-nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse Generation

An non-'nuclear EMP weapon detonated in the Manhattan financial district might cripple the US economy.

A few of them detonated in the right places in a coordinated attack, could take out the US grid for months or years.

The materials to build one could be purchased without generating any interest in the intelligence community.

[Red Badger]

I'm safe...................

[punchamullah]

This article is rather confusing. If the detonation occurred at the altitude of 250 miles above a point 20 miles southwest of Hawaii, how could the explosion take place at the elevation of ten degrees above the horizon when viewed from Hawaii?