Posted on 08/21/2012 9:41:29 PM PDT by dennisw
First Hour: History professor William R. Forstchen talks about a potential EMP attack that Israel might stage on Iran.
On Coast to Coast with George Noury the first hour tonight but might get extended into hour #2
If everything electrical is put out of commission, how will be know it happened? It’ll take a CNN reporter on a camel a long time to get to the nearest telephone to file a report.
The E1 pulse from the EMP weapon (the pulse that damages integrated circuits) is generated by Compton effect electrons in a layer of the atmosphere at a range of between 20 and 40 km in altitude. The burst point needs to be well above this range in order for the gamma rays from the fission to all enter this layer at roughly the same instant.
A burst at an altitude of 60km (about 38 miles or 200,000 ft) gives the E1 pulse a footprint with a radius of about 630 miles.
The problem is not affects on Israel (900 air miles from Tehran) but rather on Bagdad (400 miles) and US forces in the Persian Gulf (400 to 600 miles).
Lol.. who cares? Send Jim Santory there. He survives hurricanes.
Seriously, how would the world no that Israel had pulled it off if Iran can’t communicate?
With all the posturing going on, im sure israel would tell us.
. . . . knock ‘em back into the 19th century. Except in some places like Afghanistan, that would be an upgrade.
ROFLMAO!
“That’s a Pandora’s box best not opened...”
It’s going to open. The best that we can hope for is that it doesn’t open in this country (other than Hawaii, which would be a good test case).
Once we see the effects are real, then we MIGHT try to take a few steps to survive the damn thing.
“If it attmepts to fight a war like the USA fights modern wars, it will lose, just like the USA loses.”
I agree, somehow I don’t think the failed US strategy of getting the masses to ‘love us’ without actually defeating them first is going to work for Israel either, at least with Iran.
There’s a cruise missile warhead that spreads carbon filaments onto power lines. It was developed by the US as a radar-jamming chaff dispenser, IIRC, but a testing accident showed how easily it can mess up a power grid. The Israelis have it, and it wouldn’t take too many of these to do serious damage to the Iranian power grid. It also eliminates the problems of crossing the nuclear “red line.
Fear of high tech combined with animals or insects is Irans weakness.
let Israel exploit that fear by releasing some specific types of modified robo-insects.
I fondly recall a techno thriller about a certain military group outside normal channels that had enough high tech that they quite literally created a horizon wide holographic image of Mohammed telling his people to commit mass suicide in the name of Allah.
And they fell for it.
One wonders if it can be "directed" in some way. If bomb-pumped x-ray lasers are possible, perhaps such focussing could be done in the first microseconds of explostion, before the focussing structure is mechanically destroyed.
What I took away fom Danon’s interview was he repeated several times that Israel has the technology to shut down all of the electricity in iran but did not mention EMP specifically. So it could be either.
“I fondly recall a techno thriller about a certain military group”
Is this a novel or a film? I would like to check it out.
One of those techo thrillers was about China launching enough killer satellites into orbit that would shoot down anything fast moving, jets, rockets, missiles and even some airliners.
But the story evolved around the surprise discovery of a hidden WW2 Japanese aircraft carrier complete with aged pilots, who then work with American pilots who could only use propeller driven attack aircraft. Cannot remember the series name, came out about 12 years ago.
And another was about a covert group that faked a light show into a holy message from Mohammed to the people and instructing them to end all wars with the west, destroy any weapons, yada yada yada. May have been a Dale Brown book on this one.
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