The Next High-Tech Threat to U.S. Security [High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse]

FrontPageMag.com ^ | July 01, 2008 | Paul M. Weyrich

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Because the US has ABM defenses, about the only way for such a weapon to be delivered is not by missile, but by aircraft.

Typically, the assumption is that the nuclear devise would be detonated over Kansas, to blanket most of the continental US in the EMP cone. This was a Cold War strategy that makes little tactical sense today.

If China was about to launch an attack on Taiwan, it would be critical that they neutralize the West coast ports of Bremerton, Washington, and San Diego. However, an EMP devise would not neutralize those ports long enough, so it is more likely that two commercial aircraft would be used to deliver airburst or ground burst nuclear weapons.

One would be on a regular approach to Seattle, and the other to LAX or Phoenix, veering South just long enough to be over San Diego, when both aircraft would detonate powerful airburst or ground burst weapons with yields of several megatons, which the Chinese have in their inventory. It would also have to be done with some degree of plausible deniability to prevent immediate nuclear retaliation. That is, the aircraft would be coming in from third countries, and not be flagged Chinese.

Importantly, this would have to be done in conjunction with some other effort to disable the carrier fleet or fleets enough that they would have to return to port. Other assets would attempt to interfere with or delay other aircraft carrier groups arrival as replacements. Since there are no other friendly Pacific ports that can handle full carrier support, the idea would be for long enough downtime for the Taiwan invasion to be carried out.

The Chinese would also have unconventional back up plans to distract America, most likely causing disasters like dam breaks.

[Travis McGee]

EMPing

[ETL]

Geez, I hope the ChiComs aren’t reading this! How on earth do you know all these things?

[Charlespg]

I heard That the old tube radios are immune to EMP
Any truth to this?

[ETL]

I place good odds Clinton himself did the selling. He probably didn't know what an "EMP" was and figured 'hey, if they're willing to spend $xxxxxx.xx for this EMP thingy, why the heck not?

From a 2003 Washington Post article:

"...a statement [Bill] Clinton made in February 2002, in which he told an audience in Australia, 'This is a unique moment in U.S. history, a brief moment in history, when the U.S. has preeminent military, economic and political power. It won't last forever. This is just a period, a few decades this will last.'

Clinton continued...

'In all probability, we won't be the premier political and economic power we are now' in a few decades, he said, pointing to the growth of China's economy and the growing economic strength of the European Union.

Whether the United States maintains its military supremacy, he said, depends in part on how much those other entities invest in their militaries, and Clinton said working cooperatively is essential to U.S. interests.

But he said he did not want to be misunderstood. 'I never advocated that we not have the strongest military in the world...I don't think a single soul has thought I was advocating scaling back our military.'

Source: Washington Post article from May 2003:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A62253-2003Apr30&notFound=true

or find his remarks here (Talon News):
Clinton Predicts America's Decline:
http://mensnewsdaily.com/archive/newswire/nw03/talonnews/0503/newswire-tn-050503d.htm

"'We like your president. We want to see him reelected', former Chinese intelligence chief General Ji Shengde told Chinagate bagman Johnny Chung. Indeed, Chinese intelligence organized a massive covert operation aimed at tilting the 1996 election Clinton’s way."

The Idiot's Guide to Chinagate

By Richard Poe
May 26, 2003

CHINA WILL LIKELY replace the USA as world leader, said Bill Clinton in a recent Washington Post interview. It is just a matter of time. Clinton should know. He has personally done more to build China’s military strength than any man on earth.

Most Americans have heard of the so-called "Chinagate " scandal. Few understand its deadly import, however. Web sites such as "Chinagate for Dummies" and its companion "More Chinagate for Dummies" offer some assistance. Unfortunately, with a combined total of nearly 8,000 words, these two sites – like so many others of the genre – offer more detail than most of us "dummies" can absorb.

For that reason, in the 600 words left in this column, I will try to craft my own "Idiot’s Guide to Chinagate," dedicated to all those busy folks like you and me whose attention span tends to peter out after about 750 words. Here goes.

When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, China presented little threat to the United States. Chinese missiles "couldn’t hit the side of a barn," notes Timothy W. Maier of Insight magazine. Few could reach North America and those that made it would likely miss their targets.

Thanks to Bill Clinton, China can now hit any city in the USA, using state-of-the-art, solid-fueled missiles with dead-accurate, computerized guidance systems and multiple warheads.

China probably has suitcase nukes as well. These enable China to strike by proxy – equipping nuclear-armed terrorists to do their dirty work, while the Chinese play innocent. Some intelligence sources claim that China maintains secret stockpiles of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons on U.S. soil, for just such contingencies.

In 1997, Clinton allowed China to take over the Panama Canal. The Chinese company Hutchison Whampoa leased the ports of Cristobal and Balboa, on the east and west openings of the canal respectively, thus controlling access both ways. A public outcry stopped Clinton in 1998 from leasing California’s Long Beach Naval Yard to the Chinese firm COSCO. Even so, China can now strike U.S. targets easily from their bases in Panama, Vancouver and the Bahamas.

How did China catch up so fast? Easy. We sold them all the technology they needed – or handed it over for free. Neither neglect nor carelessness are to blame. Bill Clinton did it on purpose.

As a globalist, Clinton promotes "multipolarity"– the doctrine that no country (such as the USA) should be allowed to gain decisive advantage over others.

To this end, Clinton appointed anti-nuclear activist Hazel O’Leary to head the Department of Energy. O’Leary set to work "leveling the playing field," as she put it, by giving away our nuclear secrets. She declassified 11 million pages of data on U.S. nuclear weapons and loosened up security at weapons labs.

Federal investigators later concluded that China made off with the "crown jewels" of our nuclear weapons research under Clinton’s open-door policy – probably including design specifications for suitcase nukes. Meanwhile, Clinton and his corporate cronies raked in millions.

In his book The China Threat, Washington Times correspondent Bill Gertz describes how the system worked. Defense contractors eager to sell technology to China poured millions of dollars into Clinton’s campaign. In return, Clinton called off the dogs. Janet Reno and other counterintelligence officials stood down while Lockheed Martin, Hughes Electronics, Loral Space & Communications and other U.S. companies helped China modernize its nuclear strike force.

"We like your president. We want to see him reelected," former Chinese intelligence chief General Ji Shengde told Chinagate bagman Johnny Chung. Indeed, Chinese intelligence organized a massive covert operation aimed at tilting the 1996 election Clinton’s way.

Clinton’s top campaign contributors for 1992 were Chinese agents; his top donors in 1996 were U.S. defense contractors selling missile technology to China.

Clinton received funding directly from known or suspected Chinese intelligence agents, among them James and Mochtar Riady who own the Indonesian Lippo Group; John Huang; Charlie Trie; Ted Sioeng; Maria Hsia; Wang Jun and others.

Commerce Secretary Ron Brown served as Clinton’s front man in many Chinagate deals. When investigators began probing Brown’s Lippo Group and Chinagate connections, Brown died suddenly in a suspicious April 1996 plane crash.

Needless to say, China does not share Clinton’s enthusiasm for globalism or multipolarity. The Chinese look out for Number One.

"War [with the United States] is inevitable; we cannot avoid it," said Chinese Defense Minister General Chi Haotian in 2000. "The issue is that the Chinese armed forces must control the initiative in this war." Bill Clinton has given them a good start.

The Idiot's Guide to Chinagate:
http://www.richardpoe.com/column.cgi?story=125

or,
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/5/26/214938.shtml

[ETL]

You’re asking the wrong guy. I have no idea. Try ‘yefragetuwrabrumuy’. :)

[pfflier]

That's affirmative. This is not new. The military has been engaged in EMP hardening since I can recall, back to the early 70's.

Our consumer goods have become more vulnerable and the consumer market has never addressed the issue. I suppose in the case of our infrastructure that creates a demand for shielding and hardening, but as another Freeper posted earlier, that isn't all that difficult.

[maine-iac7]

Ask the demRats why they have, for years, denigrated (can I still use that word?) and fought against the Strategic Defense Initiative?

Why are they so against a system that is designed, not to attack anyone, but solely to protect us from attack?

It's been hard sledding, keeping this program alive against all our enemies in DC...Reagan introduced it - under Clinton, it was pretty much shelved, under Bush it has been progressing - with successful tests.

As to why doesn't Bush divulge everything? Anything 'divulged' to us is also broadcast to the enemies.

The mad man of Iran has been working on an EMP bomb for some time - it is his greatest goal to drop on us...

In the meantime, as some have advised: put up a years supply of food, have your own water/heat source...and keep 'em locked and loaded/

[pfflier]

Either event would have little military effect. The military has instituted EMP hardness programs as a design criteria in their weapons systems.

The civilian world would be ground to a halt. On the plus side, CNN couldn't broadcast negative reports about American troops.

[maine-iac7]

. I can even see our government trying to take our stocks and dividing stuff up..

Already written into many community Emergency Preparedness Plans.

Do not broadcast that you have storage -

It's not a bad idea to have a core network - but it does no good for 100 people to have stores - which they can then share with another 100 who are willing to roll up their sleeves and dig in to help = but then get those stores confiscated and taken by a thousand. That only means no one makes it.

[maine-iac7]

Yes - let's hope there's still the capacity to broadcast - most likely, the broadcasting will be military channels only -

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Yep, the U.S. military has been shielding its electronic equipment, satellites, missile guidance systems, and IT networks against EMPs ever since the mid-1950s.

This article is nothing new.

[ETL]

Ask the demRats why they have, for years, denigrated (can I still use that word?) and fought against the Strategic Defense Initiative? Why are they so against a system that is designed, not to attack anyone, but solely to protect us from attack?

Perhaps they want us brought down a few pegs on the world stage?

Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs

February 29, 2008 :: News
MissileThreat.com

A video has surfaced of Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talking on his plans for strategic issues such as nuclear weapons and missile defense.

The full text from the video, as released, reads as follows:

Thanks so much for the Caucus4Priorities, for the great work you've been doing. As president, I will end misguided defense policies and stand with Caucus4Priorities in fighting special interests in Washington.

First, I'll stop spending $9 billion a month in Iraq. I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it.[i.e. not win it]

Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

I will not weaponize space.

I will slow our development of future combat systems.

And I will institute an independent "Defense Priorities Board" to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.

Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.

You know where I stand. I've fought for open, ethical and accountable government my entire public life. I don't switch positions or make promises that can't be kept. I don't posture on defense policy and I don't take money from federal lobbyists for powerful defense contractors. As president, my sole priority for defense spending will be protecting the American people. Thanks so much.

Article: Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs:
http://missilethreat.com/archives/id.7086/detail.asp

"MissileThreat.com is a project of The Claremont Institute devoted to understanding and promoting the requirements for the strategic defense of the United States."

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Obama Promises to Dismantle Our Armed Forces
by Robert Maginnis
Posted 04/10/2008 ET

(Mr. Maginnis is a retired Army lieutenant colonel, a national security and foreign affairs analyst for radio and television and a senior strategist with the U.S. Army)

YouTube has an undated 52-second clip of Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barrack Obama outlining his plans for America’s national defense. Obama’s presentation demonstrates either total naivete about important national security programs or he is just pandering for votes among the extreme left.
[Maginnis does an excellent must-read analysis of Obama's suicidal defense proposals-ETL]
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=25942

Note: Here is the *original* youtube video from the Obama camp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE

Human Events refers to this poor quality copy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl32Y7wDVDs

From "45 Communist Goals":
Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963:

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

'Goals' 4-45 can be found here or at many other sites through a web search for "45 goals":
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Lieutenant Viktor Belenko

[CindyDawg]

Scary thought...Survival from our government.

[CodeToad]

EMP is of no concern to me. It effects are limited, and unless you are dragging a mile long wire out the back of your car, EMP won’t touch it.

[ETL]

On the plus side, CNN couldn't broadcast negative reports about American troops.

I'll bet Clinton didn't know this when the ChiComs 'somehow' acquired the technology during his Chinagate scandal.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2039471/posts?page=1#1

[BBell]

I'd love to see these big boys running

[wideminded]

1. It's not like EMP is news.
2. This article is full of misinformation.

[caver]

That is one huge locomotive! I can’t even count the number of wheels.