OK...this may be a silly question...but I'd rather be informed than ignorant. What if we had a 30-60 warning of an incoming ICBM to explode over Chicago. Would electronics fry in my house if I shut off the main and would the electronics in my car be fried if I disconnected the battery cable to it. I thought that EMP damages things that have current running through it...the EM pulse would seek a power source and pummel it with "extra" protons (positive energy) thus shorting it out. Enquiring minds want to know.
Ignoring? He created the threat:
Clinton and his friends in China
In my search, I found another good technical article on EMP weapons:
America's Vulnerability to a Different Nuclear Threat: An Electromagnetic Pulse
Have long had a concern about this.
Interestingly, some prophetic types have "seen in the spirit" that we have a satellite which can direct something similar to any geographic area on the planet in a broad or narrow focus of resulting electronic devastation. Supposedly, we can neutralize a city or region at the push of a button at NORAD.
What in the world could they do about it? A large percentage of those buffoons can't spell EMP. You don't even have to have a nuke blast for someone to disrupt communications with EMP. EMP generators are easy to build.
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Modern military electronics are generally shielded from EMP effects, but few civilian applicatiions are. I wonder, what kind of cost would be involved in "hardening" civilian electronics?
BTTT
What can civilians do short of wearing tinfoil hats?
What does the military do to "harden" their stuff from EMP?
(so I guess buying a classic car with points instead of electronics would be a good idea...)
Roscoe Bartlett is, and has been for a long time, a national asset. We ignore his wise advice at our own risk.
BTTT
Shoot down. Then retaliate. Scale of NMD to be able to do the first. Scale up strategic forces for the second.