To: patriot08
Any Iranian military or commercial vessel easily could get right outside the U.S. coastline and in less than 60 seconds fire a ballistic missile armed with a nuclear payload and detonate it over U.S. skies in an electromagnetic attack that would plunge America back into the 18th century. I believe Mr. Khamenei has been watching too much SciFi.
3 posted on
02/03/2012 2:36:39 PM PST by
Joe the Pimpernel
(Too many lawmakers, too many laws, too many lawyers.)
To: Joe the Pimpernel
EMP due to exoatmospheric nuclear explosion is science fact. Deleterious effect of said EMP on power grids, comm grids, satellites, unshielded electronics, etc are also science fact.
The real question is whether Iran is capable of carrying out such an attack, or merely blowing smoke.
17 posted on
02/03/2012 2:47:44 PM PST by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Joe the Pimpernel
They believe in the Mahdi but not physics, apparently.
To: Joe the Pimpernel
Actually my fiancee’s nephew works as a fairly high level consultant to NASA and he told us about a year ago that the govt’s worst fear is an EMP. They are very worried about it. If the Iranians run a tramp steamer up the East Coast and fire off a nuke to about 40 miles up and detonate it could take out the whole East Coast grid. If they scuttle the vessel it might be hard to prove who actually did it.
32 posted on
02/03/2012 3:00:31 PM PST by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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