According to the 2004 Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States of EMP Attack (Executive Report), “Several potential adversaries have or can acquire the capability to attack the United States with a high-altitude nuclear weapon-generated electromagnetic pulse (EMP). A determined adversary can achieve an EMP attack capability without having a high level of sophistication.”
It goes on to briefly address the effects, “EMP is one of a small number of threats that can hold our society at risk of catastrophic consequences. EMP will cover the wide geographic region within line of sight to the nuclear weapon. It has the capability to produce significant damage to critical infrastructures and thus to the very fabric of US society…” The Commission’s chairman has testified that within one year of such an attack, 70% – 90% of Americans would be dead from such causes as disease and violence. It is also highly plausible that many Americans would die of starvation due to the interruption of the national food supply.
According to the Washington Department of Health, Office of Radiation Protection, “A 1.4 Megaton bomb launched about 250 miles above Kansas would destroy most of the electronics that were not protected in the entire Continental United States.”
That report has been debunked by scientists all over the world, just like the “commissions” on the global warming hoax. Yes, there are commissions all over the federal and State governments wildly claiming global warming is a fact; yet, their reports are written using falsehoods and lies. Everyone writing such reports has ulterior motives. Many serve on boards of companies, or have been offered seats on boards, that would greatly benefit from the reports being swayed, just like global warming.
Basic common sense will dictate what EMP really is. You don’t need a PhD in electrical engineering or physics to ask simple questions that completely and totally debunk the myth that is EMP. However, there are those that want to play fantasy games and think of themselves as the “knowing” and of surviving when everyone else is dead.
““Several potential adversaries have or can acquire the capability to attack the United States with a high-altitude nuclear weapon-generated electromagnetic pulse (EMP). A determined adversary can achieve an EMP attack capability without having a high level of sophistication.” “
Just that sentence, alone, deserves absolute scorn for being ridiculous. They called possessing nuclear weapons and missiles capable of intercontinental range as not being of “a high level of sophistication.” Well, blown my skirt and call my Peggy. I everyone ought to have a nuclear missile topped with a nuclear bomb. It ain’t that hard, gosh darn it. Kind of like changing the oil in the tractor. Creating a nuclear weapon is a major challenge. Just because it was done 60+ years ago doesn’t make it not a high level of sophistication. Countries with massive budgets and high levels of education and technical engineering have failed to produce one, yet, this mickey mouse commission calls it trivial.
Making a missile go far enough and high enough is itself a massive and sophisticated challenge. Hell more countries have nuclear bombs than missiles that can do that. No sophistication there I guess. Just some good ol’ low level third-world know how to get those two things accomplished.