Posted on 01/24/2006 4:52:36 PM PST by ChristianDefender
Now, I'm afraid I must move on to a very downbeat topic: EMP. You may not know what those letters mean, but you will eventually be bombarded with more doom and gloom articles about them than you want. If you were looking for an uplifting column this week, I recommend you stop right here and click into some nicer columns by my esteemed WND colleagues.
EMP refers to Electro-Magnetic Pulse weaponry, high-yielding atomic bombs that are enhanced to exaggerate their circuitry-destroying effect and minimize their human-destroying effect (quite possibly to the point of zero casualties even with an urban target).
To get right to the point: Iran could soon develop and deliver one of these things and detonate it over the United States. With some deniability.
One is all it would take. According to a third party, India's Institute of Defense Studies, "A study conducted in the U.S. during the late 1980s reported that a high-yield device exploded about 500 kilometers above the ground can generate an electromagnetic pulse on the order of 50,000 volts over a radius of 2,500 kilometers around the point of burst ..."
While the immediate casualties might be very minimal, the loss of all electrical devices could produce tens of millions of deaths within months, especially in winter. According to my understanding, the "electronic fatalities" would include all cars and trucks, telephones, computers, gas pumps, refrigerators, radio-TV broadcasts, printing presses, commercial and military aircraft, and power-generating plants. Think: No electrical anything.
As fire-fighting equipment would not function without water pressure or fire engines, some entire cities could go up in smoke. After canned goods were gone, we would all be out hunting and gathering, harvesting dandelions from our yards and so forth. You get the picture. Pure doomsday stuff.
In case you're clinging to some vague hope that this is rumor or conjecture, you may make a quick check on any search engine. You will discover that every major government in the world is aware and concerned. Worse, Iran has been using its intermediate-range Shahab-3 missiles to test their delivery capability. They've shot non-nuclear, self-destroying test warheads into an arc high over the Caspian Sea.
Because the missiles never reached full height, some U.S. defense people have called them failures. On the contrary, Iran has called them successes. Why? Because they're not trying for an ICBM-range test. All the Iranians need to do is load one of these things into the hold of any friendly ship, get within 100 miles of the U.S. coast, and fire it way high. They don't have to be accurate at all. One EMP over Kansas or so, and it's over. What's our response? Nuke the entire Middle East?
My guess: We'd be too busy gathering roots and boiling them for dinner.
Do I think all this is going to happen? Not really ... though it is disconcerting to note that in Ezekiel 38:5 Iran is mentioned, in ancient terms, as one of those countries united against Israel at Armageddon.
I have two main hopes: One, that the United States will noisily stage an EMP demo over some Pacific atoll (stocked with demo electrical equipment). And if that doesn't slow down Iran, we stage another demo over a lonely Iranian oil field – within days.
But my overriding hope is that the current growing wave of united prayer will rapidly snowball into Christians taking the initiative in warding off this evil before it even reaches the demo stage.
My guess: We'd be too busy gathering roots and boiling them for dinner.
If the U.S. government is aware ahead of this i bet there is a defense or contingency plan for this.. and i hope America can retaliate..
lol....does this guy not understand that people who read WND are specifically looking for doom and gloom articles?
I don't think that a nuclear explosion 300 miles above the surface would, in fact, do any such thing.
it was mentioned as one of our options being considered to use in Iraq
Anybody who goes to WorldNetDaily should have their BS alert meter set on high.
total crap
P.S. Forget about boiling roots. Rats are tastier and have more protein.
World Nuclear Destruction //sarc...
Well maybe, but at least it made us aware... im not a WND fan though.
"I don't think that a nuclear explosion 300 miles above the surface would, in fact, do any such thing."
Mukes were tested in space before..............
http://www.vce.com/nukes.html
During the heart of the Cold War, the United States and the former Soviet Union launched and detonated a combined total of over 20 thermo nuclear weapons in the upper atmosphere and near space region of earth in an effort to test the effects of launching an offense as well as countering an offense. Even during the Cuban Missile Crisis!
Almost unknown to the public, much of the information on theses tests has been kept secret for over 35 years until recently, when newly declassified test footage and secret government documents obtained from both countries reveals everything from the ICBM to outer space testing to ABM.
Gathering roots? With my shotgun and three rifles? How's that work?
Yikes i dont eat rats... i heard dog's meat are good but still i wont eat that.
EMP from a nuke at altitude is a real and well-known phenomenon.
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/congress/1997_h/h970716u.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/doddict/data/e/01831.html
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/report/1988/CM2.htm
What is less certain is Iran's ability to deliver such a strike without direct assistance from say, Russia or the PRC.
I've noticed that the WND has a track record slightly below the Weekly World News for accuracy, and they don't even feature the latest on Bat Boy.
The Euros would go into appeasement mode faster than you could blink.
Yup--it's called "nuclear missile launching submarines". Immune to any kind of EMP attack.
I hope this link works. BS my a$$.
http://www.house.gov/hasc/openingstatementsandpressreleases/108thcongress/04-07-22emp.pdf
EMP has been know about since the 1950's but unless a nation has an ICBM, there is no way to get a nuclear warhead over the United States high enough to create a continent wide EMP. Also, you would need a very large device, well into the megaton range to do significant damage. Iran doesn't have an ICBM nor do they have a thermonuclear weapon.
Cool. I bet Iran would be willing to push the button, if they were given the assets...
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