Sounds like the whole country could be protected for a small fraction of the cost of Gov. Moonbeam’s bullet train to nowhere. But of course Zero won’t do anything to displease his Muzzie Buddies.
Hey, unless an EMP attack also wipes out all our brains so we are as dumb as politicians or liberals, we will retain the knowledge to rebuild anything which was destroyed.
Only the glass is half empty communists in this country want a dead America. They would love it if we could not recover because they detest our success as it always makes their beloved Marxism look so bad.
An EMP over Mordor-on-the-Potomac might actually save the country!
It would cost $200M just to create and implement the government bureaucracy to make this happen. I worked in power generation before and during Y2K and remember the volumes of government regulations and reports we needed to “prove” that every “clock chip” would not be affected by Y2K. A “clock chip” is an electronic device that cycles on and off at a fixed rate, but since they were called a clock, they must have a calendar too, right??
And the federal government of 1999 was much smarter than that of the Obamanation.
We're Americans and we can do anything we put our minds to do.
Yeah, we're a little out'a practice with this national thing ... patriotism an' all ... but America with no microwaves and computers?
We'll jump across some friggin' kind of wires and fire them puppies back up.
America with no morning coffee?
Just get the hell out of our way.
Americans will find a way and will recover quickly, assuming they are allowed to rebuild basis their local needs
As for the present American Federal Gov’t? EMP attack, Bankruptcy, plague, Act of God? Any major crisis will quickly reveal that much of what the Feds do isn’t needed, and won’t need to be replaced once it is gone.
It really depends on who’s running things when it happens. If we have a bunch of “can-do” people, we’ll get out of it. If we have a bunch of “hand-wringers,” we won’t. And there are plenty of both kinds on both sides of the political divide.
The problem with EMP as a weapon is that nobody knows how much or how little damage it will do.
While the EMP pulse has a different frequency profile than a lightning strike, consider how many cell towers and radio station towers are regularly struck by lightning and the equipment at the base of the tower continues to operate.
Also consider how often home electronics are subjected to very close lightning strikes or overhead bolts and survive. Or better yet, when a close strike occurs, that some home devices survive while some others are fried.
Of course, there will be a lot of disruption if even 10% of the electronics were fried in the grocery stores over a large area of the US, especially when some of that equipment will be refrigeration controllers.
While we are in a rush to install smart meters and a smart grind, the really smart people in Washington would do well to also attempt to mitigate losses from EMP as well.
A fried electrical grid means no fresh water or sewage treatment, no trucks to deliver food, no irrigation to grow food. Hmmm.
I think that this is the stuff that the CIA show Obama each morning and that is why he has had a sudden hankering to kill terrorists.
Kill these weenies first: problem solved.
never is a long time
Short sighted, immediate gratification people don’t do well in life. Like a ghetto rat, America is very strong and very stupid.
Once upon a time scientists did science, presented their findings as objectively, clearly and widely as possible, and allowed the people through their elected representatives and vigorous debate, decide if and how the political consequences of the science (if verified,) are implemented.
Idiots like this one have a "better" idea. Megalomaniacs. Presidential material.
For just a few million grant money this alarmist will study something and a write a report or something.
This is a case of when not if, in 1859 a solar storm caused an EMP that took out telegraph lines. Big solar storms happen.
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To cover the whole country with that level of damage, you would need a multi-megaton warhead, detonated from orbit, or several smaller (but still 100KT+) warheads at lower altitude. To accomplish this, we are talking about a major nuclear strike by a major power (Russia or China). The W49 warhead weighed 1,640 pounds. Lofting that payload into orbit is within the capabilities of only a few.
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