Posted on 11/10/2008 6:30:44 AM PST by The_Tick_01
How will Obama deal with this threat? We have Carter II in the making.
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Posts like yours make it hard for FR to be taken seriously.
Curt Weldon (my former Congressman)was warning of this years ago. They didn’t listen then.
Too late. He will be Carter III.
The foreign threat...and our vulnerability due to stupid complacency....have only grown graver. The EMP threat is not a recent threat, although its increasingly imminent and dramatically more dire impact were recently commented on by the Heritage Foundation, which also pointedly noted in passing the neglect of the current administration:
A major threat to America has been largely ignored by those who could prevent it.
W was beseeched over and over to spend a paltry $14 billion to do some critical infratructure toughening and preparedness investments.
Face it people. Get your systems as protected as possible. Get stockpiled. I am.
Our nation is as good as toast...and we as individuals and the residual believers in our nation...are on our own.
God help us now.
"EMP Radiation & Protective Techniques", Ricketts, Bridges, Miletta; Wiley & Sons; 1976EMP has been a known threat for many decades, and measures to survive it have been designed and developed for just as long. It's not some sudden Iranian "weapon of the future".
(Full disclosure: The book mentioned above happens to be in my personal library (since 1978). I'm sure there are others as well.)
An old Corvair (no anti-freeze needed) running on Propane is looking better every day....
Oh there’s a place for good humor on FR, and I see plenty of it - your post on the other hand was the type that makes FR seem ugly and bigoted. If we are to make conservatism appealing to younger people do you think it’s a good idea to make crude “black = ghetto jungle bunny with boombox” type jokes? Worse if you actually think that way.
Well that’s convenient - noone is responsible for what they say; the reader is! Glad to see a mod had the good sense to remove your post. Guess that’s just “the mod’s problem.”
Assuming Iran could actually get a nuclear bomb into space above the U.S., most US combat capability is hardened against EMP. The real disaster would be the sudden loss of most civilian electronic devices and vehicles. Only vehicles powerted by magnetos (small road vehicles, small aircraft) would be immune. Starvation and lack of water would kill tens of millions.
I would find it hard to believe that the detonation of an Iranian nuke over the US would not be seen as an act of war especially if it crippled our electronic infrastructure. However, with Obama as appeaser-in-chief such an overt act would be met by a nasty note to the Iranians and begging for the UN to do something. However, unlike Carter who weathered more than a year of Americans being held hostage, Obama would not find the American people that patient when the attack would cause airliners to crash, hospital patients to die and economic ruin for most Americans.
The situation is even worse than you suggest. I was privy to a few nuclear bomb studies in the mid-1960's, and EMP was widely known and discussed by the experts even in those long-ago days of yore.
(I guess they had learned all we needed to know about EMP from the above-ground nuclear tests of the 1950's. But access to such info would have been way above my pay grade.)
As regards the present era, my great fear is that we'll do nothing at all to "harden" the electricity grid, civilian telecommunications infrastructure, the electronics in our cars, etc. until after the first EMP attack.
So we can only hope that the inevitable first attack is confined to a relatively small geographic area.
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