1 posted on
06/22/2006 2:41:26 PM PDT by
RDTF
To: Cindy
2 posted on
06/22/2006 2:41:48 PM PDT by
RDTF
("We love death. The US loves life. That is the big difference between us two.” Osama Bin laden)
To: RDTF
Comprehensive baloney.
Such a bomb is far more complex than a lot of other possible types of threats. And therefore a lot less likely to be available to terrorists.
3 posted on
06/22/2006 2:43:11 PM PDT by
Restorer
To: RDTF
thought we already have them, plus a high altitude nuke explosion would cause it too
4 posted on
06/22/2006 2:43:48 PM PDT by
sure_fine
(*not one to over kill the thought process*)
To: RDTF
Is this clown trying to coin a new term? This weapon/effect already
has a name, and it's "EMP" (Wiki:
ElectroMagnetic Pulse), not E-Bomb. AFAIK, it's one effect of a
nuclear explosion.
6 posted on
06/22/2006 2:45:47 PM PDT by
TChris
("Wake up, America. This is serious." - Ben Stein)
To: RDTF
The next terror threat facing the United States is not a nuclear or gas attack but an electro-magnetic bomb or e-bomb
Highly over rated as to disruptive potential. The EMP bomb would have to be detonated at a relatively high altitude and one bomb would have a limited area of effect. Equipment made in the last 20 years or so is well shielded so the effect would be limited to very old equipment.
7 posted on
06/22/2006 2:45:50 PM PDT by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
To: RDTF
This has been gone over ad nauseum in FR. The equipment that counts is already hardened against EMP pulses. We could get hurt bad, but not completely crippled.
11 posted on
06/22/2006 2:49:33 PM PDT by
Solamente
(Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out...)
To: RDTF
An EMP is not so impressive as one might think.
Most of our civilian infrastructure would surely reboot, but our military electronics are shielded against such threats.
Nice try, Akmed.
To: RDTF
Well, I'm prepared. The grid goes down, I'm ready to FReep by flashlight.
What?
To: RDTF
19 posted on
06/22/2006 2:56:26 PM PDT by
ASA Vet
(3.03)
To: RDTF
Is this "E-bomb" the same type of bomb they used in the movie Oceans Eleven?
To: RDTF
These BARBARIANS, to put it politely, do NOT have the capablibity to unleash THIS kind of an attack:
"However, I overheard conversations which strongly suggested that there is a section of the anti-American resistance which is seriously pursuing a project aimed at bringing America back to the Stone Age without harming human lives," said Khawaja."
"Khawaja said he overheard references to a plan to use an e-bomb and a project to destroy US satellites, all with the single objective of crippling the American system without actually harming anyone.'
OTOH, the U.S. will most likely, if not already, have THIS ability to hurl them further into caves and looking like the stereotyped Neanderthals.
31 posted on
06/22/2006 3:08:31 PM PDT by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) !)
To: RDTF
I recall the Canadians were working on something similar back in the '80s.
They called it the "Eh-bomb" until they lost interest, after which it became the "Feh-bomb".
36 posted on
06/22/2006 3:43:20 PM PDT by
Hoplite
To: RDTF
38 posted on
06/22/2006 3:46:28 PM PDT by
COEXERJ145
(Apparently Being Mean to a Troll is Now Grounds for Banning.)
To: RDTF
More like the
BS bomb.
It would have to be bigger than anything proven to be in the possesion of the
mufsidun.
The delivery would have to be controlled and positioned precisely, a skill not demonstrated by any third world nuclear power.
Finally, it would have to get off the ground. And, of course, the responsible country would be just as vulnerable to the same sort of damage, plus the more intimate up-close and personal type, delivered courtesy of the Air Force and Navy.
42 posted on
06/22/2006 4:15:04 PM PDT by
Publius6961
(Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
To: RDTF
Oh right. We haven't even thought of this possibility. We don't have hardened assets. /sarc
43 posted on
06/22/2006 4:28:58 PM PDT by
OpusatFR
( ALEA IACTA EST. We have just crossed the Rubicon.)
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