Iran plans to knock out U.S. with 1 nuclear bomb(EMP missile attack from a ship?)

World Net Daily ^ | 04/25/05 | Joseph Farah

[ConservativeMind]

Is that enough for the whole car to run, though?

I didn't know that about current cars. It makes me feel a bit better. Thanks!

[CyberAnt]

When Sharon paid a visit to the Ranch recently, he brought with him aerial photographs of Iran. I sincerely hope this means we have a joint plan going to take the nuke stuff out of service.

[frankiep]

I clicked on that link and the movie doesn't play.

[ChefKeith]

Sorry, My bad.

Been a long week- 24 hours of O.T.

Then this country will be opening up a can of Whup-a$$ like the world has never seen and the people will do it, not the "govt".

[ChefKeith]

Woof! to that!!!

[Spktyr]

You might burn out some of the sensors. Either way, the car will still be operable, if only in limp-home mode.

[Rca2000]

I was thinking the same thing. They launch one shibab,we'll send them 20 Trident II',s, each with 8 or more w-88's.

[dagnabbit]

This article seems to presume that the Assured Destruction part of MAD deterence doesn't apply to Iran (In Iran's case the destruction would be unilateral not mutual). Why would Iran actually launch a first strike by missile against the USA? Are they really assumed to be so Jihad-nuts that, unlike the USSR for 50 years, they don't care about absolute annihilation?

[ConservativeMind]

Wouldn't lightening give off EMP? If so, then perhaps the sensors are already hardened.

[Advil]

And that video right there should be a convincing enough reason why we should both maintain a mighty milrary and fight with everything with have to keep insane power hungry nations from getting these weapons.

Most of the footage was of older weapons as well, a good example of the exact kinds of weapons N. Korea and Iran would like to use on us.

I don't think I have seen the footage from the inside of the ships before. The hulls were just melted away like a tinfoil movie set. Nothing man-made can survive that.

[ProudVet77]

Actually the truth is that our systems (the critical ones) are much more hardened than was portrayed in "The Day After". Most won;t even blink if beyond 100 miles of the blast. A big lightning storm has more energy than a small nuke high in the atmosphere.

[Bon mots]

Germany was planning to do this to us during WWII. They had the capability of towing V-2s to within striking range of major US cities. They never did, because we kept bombing them to smithereens, but if they had a few months more, we could have seen these kinds of attacks.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Thank you.

EMP, I have been reading of these for about 10 years.

They will be very bad if used.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping

[Travis McGee]

Who exactly would we nuke, if a rocket was launched from a Liberian freighter 100 miles off of Virginia?

[PAR35]

At worst the pulse would cause local inconvenience. One bomb generating a big enough EMP to bring down the country? Not a chance. There are conventional ways to cause greater disruption, but I'm not going to post them here.

[shadowman99]

Atmospheric testing is the reason we understand EMP in the first place. During the Thor missile tests in the early 60's, conducted mainly near Pacific islands, it was noticed that for 20-30 minutes after a test that most electronics went haywire. Keep in mind this is back when vacuum tubes were used in many household appliances. As time progressed, we've used integrated circuits(ICs) in their place. ICs are much more sensitive to an EMP.

A captured Soviet MIG Fighter was once studied by scientists who were puzzled why the Russians would build a combat jet favoring tubes in place of microchips. The Russians figured out EMP before the US, and they found the jet would stay functional where it's more sophisticated US rival would lose power and fall out of the sky.

EMPs can be thwarted by the use of a Faraday cage. A Faraday cage is a box of conductive material (copper mesh) with no openings or doors, slits, or anything allowing an outside electrical field to pass into the cage. Since such a design is impractical, few perfect Faraday cages exist. But even imperfect designs are quite effective against EMP, and the US has hardened it's defenses against EMP long ago.

[Travis McGee]

We will launch the retaliation against who, exactly, if nobody claims "credit" for the missile strike from an anonymous freighter, which then blows up and sinks moments after launch?

Remember, there is no blast or fallout, just EMP. No immediate mass death. It may take weeks or months to sort out who did what, and even then there may be doubts about which country launched the rocket.

So weeks after the EMP attack, the president is going to nuke a city...where?

[Travis McGee]

Iran can't keep a light bulb lit for 48 hours so we should think they can do this?

Japan can't keep a light bulb lit for 48 hours so we should think they can attack Pearl Harbor, clear across the Pacific, undetected? Hah! What a joke!

[Casloy]

While they launch that one missle they may as well launch whatever they have left into the center of Teheran, because eithe way the results will be the same. Several missles with follow their first launch, either theirs or ours.