Posted on 04/05/2013 7:10:05 AM PDT by raptor22
National Security: The administration moves an advanced missile defense system to Guam because it knows a single low-yield nuke detonated at high altitude could send America back in time a hundred years.
The announcement Wednesday by the Defense Department that it would soon deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System (THAAD), a missile defense system inherited from the Bush administration, to Guam underscores the seriousness of the threat from North Korea, whose actions, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel rightly said, "present a real and clear danger."
This move comes after the Obama administration reversed its previous scuttling of Bush administration plans to increase our ground-based interceptor force in Alaska and the deployment of two destroyers equipped with Aegis missile defense systems, the Decatur and the John McCain, to the region.
Some observers dismissed it as familiar bluster when North Korea's 28-year-old raging runt, Kim Jong-un, signed an order for North Korea's strategic rocket forces to be on standby to fire at U.S. targets in front of a map that included Austin, Texas, as a target.
But other observers are concerned that a specific target may not be what the possibly imploding North Korean regime may have in mind.
The three-stage missile North Korea launched last December that also orbited a "package," which experts say could be a test to orbit a nuclear weapon that then would be de-orbited on command anywhere over the U.S. and exploded at a high altitude, releasing an electromagnetic pulse (EMP). That would fry electronic circuitry and the nation's power grid.
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I’m not real worried about Kim Yung Dung and the bull$hit he babbles on about.
“our cities would already be wrecked”
Haven’t you noticed, their not our cities.
We have no idea if MAD is going to work with NK. Sometimes, an insane person, by a fluke, gets into power. Think of Caligula, and his insanity. A third-generation Dear Leader is, to me, quite possibly insane. If you can prove otherwise, please do so.
>> “Your standby generator might be a large door stop after an EMP attack.” <<
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Not true!
Only things connected to large “antennas” could be affected.
But no one to shoot them, they all died from stravation and bad water, because you know having preparedness supplies that last you more than a week to ten days is CRAZY!
LMAO. Excellent!
You nailed it exactly.
The USA is ripe for very bad things to happen to us.
It would get dicey post EMP attack. Very dicey. We would be more vulnerable than we’ve possibly ever been since 1812. The last time we were invaded.
It would be a great temptation to China and Russia.
I hope you’re right. It would be awful enough here post EMP.
“All China and Russia have to do is decide how to split the territory, once the slaughter is over when the starving population devolves into anarchy.”
And there goes the market for their stuff...
Batteries?
If you believe you can continue your life as normal for even one week with battery power only, you are in for a rude awakening.
>> “I talked to some physicists at work (real physicists who work on DARPA and defense projects not physics teachers). Their opinion was that the threat of EMP is greatly exaggerated and it would take a massive attack to completely blackout the US.” <<
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True. - A much larger attack than anyone but possibly Russia could ever mount.
Only a fool would not recognize that, for good or ill, we are chained to our cities.
If someone is chained to a madman high on a ledge, he would be a fool to make jokes about the madman’s jumping off not affecting his own destiny.
If you think our 30 biggest cities exploding into 30 Mogadishus won’t affect all of us, you are a fool.
>> “If you believe you can continue your life as normal for even one week with battery power only, you are in for a rude awakening.” <<
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Yep!
36 - 48 hours if you have lots of battery capacity and they are well maintained.
And the gas the generator would use to run? How do you get more of that without the refineries that are connected to those large antennae?
They had to truck in gas to So MS post Katrina from Texas. Because the pumping stations on the pipeline down here were nonfunctioning. Because, hey, No Electricity!
Stations used up their own gas supplies fairly quickly via generator. And then resupply got dicey...most counties in far So MS reserved any fuel for LEOs, EMT’s, ambulance and fire services. The power company trucks were next. Getting the pumping station up and running in Collins MS was a big deal.
Imagine if all the pumping stations were toast? Or even just half of them. Imagine if 50% of the refineries in this country went caput at once?
And don’t think the blue city thugs will stay put. They associate those red counties with farming and food.
“And there goes the market for their stuff...’
Russia doesn’t export much to the USA. Its primary exports are energy to the EU.
With respect to China, it can convert its factories to supply its invading armies instead of producing consumer goods. Not unlike the US conversion of its manufacturing capacity to producing war materials in WWII. For China, wiping out 200 million of the 300 million US population via the anarchy and starvation following EMP and then sending 200 million of its own people to North America would be a good deal. Supplying the occupation and rebuilding would keep its factories at home running for decades.
China and Russia will have their own problems. An EMP strike on America would have results cascading around the globe. It’s like a giant asteroid strike. The crater and pool of fire might strike one side of the planet, but the fallout will span the globe.
The power grid, or satellite constellations, and the global Cisco network are all linked like conjoined twins. We lose the grid, the sats will tumble and the internet will die.
The power grid, OUR satellite constellations, and the global Cisco network are all linked like conjoined twins.
H.J.
Do you think the denizens of those cities would stay put?
How many of the technical people and engineers needed for a recovery do you think live in the outskirts of those cities? When most of those people are dead from unsanitary conditions, starvation or social unrest who rebuilds us then?
1."Star Wars" will never work.
2. We have "Global Warming."
3. "Squiggly light bulbs are good."
4. "The Chevvy Volt is the 'Car of the Future.' "
Others?
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