Posted on 04/26/2017 8:02:05 AM PDT by rktman
While the total wipeout depicted in One Second After is probably exaggerated, the effects could knock out our power grid for months, and destroy critical communications and computer systems. As former CIA chief James Woolsey recently said:
If you look at the electric grid and what it's susceptible to, we would be moving into a world with no food delivery, no water purification, no banking, no telecommunications, no medicine. All of these things depend on electricity in one way or another.
In such a situation, there simply is no way to rule out the possibility that hundreds of millions could die.
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I doubt little rat boy could pull it off. But you must remember that the SUN in the past has caused similar effects.
It will do so again and there is no excuse for us to not be prepared.
“Yield on Starfish Prime was I think 1.4MT detonated at 400 miles.
The warhead itself was probably a two stage thermonuclear weighing around 10klbs.
Way beyond NK technology”
I wouldn’t be lulled into a false sense of security by those facts.
Also, WRT Nork technology, this article http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/04/could_north_korea_destroy_the_us.html indicates that they may well have the benefit of Soviet-developed designs for EMP-enhanced warheads.
Again, I’m not getting a big dose of the warm and fuzzies from these facts. Underestimating enemies from either arrogance or intellectual laziness is a foolish luxury, and if you have determined enemies and just enough bad luck, that can really ruin your day. Ask the Romans about the capabilities of the barbarians, or the French about how the “best army in the world, bar none” held off those naughty Germans in 1940.
Well, looks like you were right: the EMP efficiency of pure fission weapons is much higher than the Starfish Prime device.
So if a 10 kiloton fission device is 40% as powerful as a 1.4 megaton thermonuclear device you would only need a 25 kiloton yield from the fission device match Starfish Prime.
That is much more achievable by Chia Pet Kim, so his nuclear program really needs to be stopped at all costs.
Kinda sucks to be South Korean at the moment.
You’re mix-matching your electromagnetic radiation.
A Carrington event/solar flare/charged particles are indeed easily protected using a farday cage, electonric circuit breakers etc.
An EMP event is a nuclear bomb detonation which releases a gamma ray burst that has several follow on effects that effectively fry unshielded electronics. It requires several inches of steel or feet of earth to insulate against a weapons-grade gamma ray burst.
A typical protection strategy for an EMP strike is to bury additional essential electronic equipment several feet underground since putting 4” of steel around all electronics is sort of impractical.
Remember that map Kim made of the cities he was gonna nuke.. pressure points of the grid? Are the devices here already?
Civil Defense. Even after the advent of nuclear weapons, the civil defense program did not begin in earnest in the United States until 1951, reaching an initial peak of federal interest in the early 1960s, and a second peak in the early 1980s. In both periods, a nuclear civil defense program, whenever it moved beyond mere rhetoric to be seriously supported by high federal officials, immediately elicited general hostility, set the scientific and political elite to arguing in public, and energized peace groups into successful action to discredit the program and return it to its usual marginal status in American life.
President Truman resisted significant funding for civil defense, preferring to save money for weapons, but the beginning of the Korean War and the Soviet Union's development of an atomic bomb led to the creation of the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) in 1951. Congress continually cut FCDA funding requests by at least half. The agency concentrated on producing propaganda, which it termed “educational material.” A flood of booklets, films, television shows, and media stories sought to convince the American public they could survive a nuclear attack with minor preparations. Meanwhile, many public schools initiated atomic air‐raid drills, teaching children to “Duck and Cover!” in case of nuclear war.
In the Eisenhower era, a series of nuclear bomb tests, in both the Pacific and the American West, dramatized the danger of blast and radioactive fallout. The creation of the H‐bomb convinced many Americans that civil defense was useless. The FCDA shifted from a shelter program to a policy of evacuation of the cities, which was met with public ridicule. From 1955 to 1962, national air‐raid drills called “Operation Alert” were held each year in dozens of major cities. These drills set off major protests nationwide, especially in New York City, where between 1955 and 1961 thousands of people participated in well‐organized civil disobedience efforts to discredit civil defense as a solution to the threat of nuclear annihilation. Several large cities refused to participate in Operation Alert drills, and millions of citizens simply ignored them. In 1958, President Eisenhower, who fully understood the horrific effect of nuclear exchange, ignored a call for a hugely expensive civil defense program issued by his FCDA director and supported by Cold War conservatives. He cut civil defense funds and shut down the FCDA. Despite lack of government financial support, a brief shelter craze occurred in the late fifties and early sixties, largely stimulated by the press and construction firms.
Presidential support for civil defense peaked in the Kennedy administration. Partly because of Kennedy's desire for a “macho” stand, but mostly because of his rivalry with Nelson Rockefeller—a strong supporter of civil defense and Kennedy's expected rival in the election of 1964—Kennedy transferred responsibility for civil defense to the Pentagon and called for an expanded shelter program. Congress appropriated the largest amount ever, $208 million in 1961, for marking and stocking existing shelter spaces such as basements and subways. Unnerved by the dissent and public excitement, Kennedy downplayed civil defense in 1962, especially after Governor Rockefeller's civil defense program was defeated in New York State. The growing peace movement argued effectively that civil defense offered no protection against nuclear missiles and fueled the arms race and the threat of nuclear war. Critics of civil defense also noted the chief function of civil defense propaganda—to legitimate both deterrence policy and the hugely expensive underground shelters reserved for the political, military, and economic elite.
After the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, civil defense all but disappeared, not to be resurrected until 1979 when President Carter, apparently motivated by a false report that the USSR was building a large civil defense program, combined all civil defense actions, including protection against natural disasters, into a new organization called the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In the 1980s, during the Reagan years, high federal officials again called for a large civil defense program that would sponsor a mass evacuation of people into rural areas if war seemed imminent. As in the early 1960s, the plan quickly faded in the wake of massive public resistance. [See also Nuclear Strategy; Peace and Antiwar Movements; Propaganda and Public Relations, Government.]
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Thomas J. Kerr , Civil Defense in the U.S.: Bandaid for a Holocaust?, 1983.
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Been studying this for a while for a non-prepper neighbor. I refer you to this:
What about reheat? ;-3
Thank you.
Thanks.
I’ve been collecting the Fox-Fire books for reference. Need about 4 more.
There is a book called The Knowledge, by Lewis Dartnell, that I highly recommend. It explains enough about the physics, chemistry, and mechanics of how things work that, with a little trial-and-error, it would be possible to go from stone-age to mid-1940’s level technology within a single generation. Even if stuff never hits the fan to that degree, the information is useful when designing or repairing anything.
And it’s just a fun read. Although I’m the kind of person who reads how-to books for fun, so opinions may vary.
I don’t know enough to gauge how big a threat North Korea is, but I do know enough to say that the grid can be taken down fairly easily, in many different ways. I’d rather be ready than not.
That's what all the guns and ammo are for. Also, I can also build a smokeless fire to boil water indoors, no problem.
...IN THEIR FRONT YARD.
Which is one of my few complaints about country trash, who I otherwise am fond of.
No, common bleach would not work just fine. Many limitations to that product.
Actually, we now possess a EMP weapon that is mounted on a cruise missile. I think Lockheed makes it.
Supposedly it can target specific buildings.
Kimmy has neither the missiles nor the warhead ... fake news/click bait.
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