Posted on 01/24/2006 4:52:36 PM PST by ChristianDefender
Before you totally dismiss it, take a gander at the link Dallas59 posted in #3. The claim has been made that an EMP can be produced without a nuclear device. PopSci had an article on this a while back, and Dallas59's linked page describes it in detail.
Sorry for double post.
The US carried out dozens of such tests in the Pacific to see what would happen.
EM communications were knocked out for a few hours.
The EMP threat is vastly (and I mean way extrememly vastly) overestimated.
It is is not going to fry your computer or your car's electronics or the power systems. They are not going to work for the few seconds that EM radiation overwhelms them when a bomb explodes but that is it.
EMP is not a new threat. Scientists and engineers have known about this since the nuclear age began at White Sands. The signifigance of this article is the fact that "consumer electronics" would be heavily damaged, however, critical military and government equipment are well shielded.
>How about the threat of one over Europe?
Europe? Why Europe? Europe isn't Iran's enemy.
If Iran explodes one such device, they'll explode it over their arch enemy Israel, not the Continent of Europe. But I don't think Iran has the gulls to do any such a thing. They're just bluffing.
>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.
The United States is not Iran's enemy - Israel is. Not only is Israel their number one enemy, but it's also an easier target.
Iran is bluffing. If they had the capability they would have used it long ago.
I doubt that Iran is even blithering about using an EMP weapon. This all comes from the kooky mind of another World Nut Daily writer, Joseph Farah. He has been predicting some kind of nuclear attack on the U.S. for several years now. So far, the Iranian EMP hasn't happened, the 30+ al-Qaeda nukes haven't happened, nor has any of his other predictions.
He sounds like a prophet of doom wishing the United States and Israel's annihilation.
Bingo!
And how many communication/data systems were dependant on transistors then? How about microchips? And there were how many embedded computers controlling what???
"That Muke stuned my beeber seriesly hugh!"
Mukes are Mega Nukes. Yeah thats it, I meant to type that.
That is even less significant
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