Tiring scare tactics. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
Here’s a bubba-fied way to make a faraday cage.
http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/building-a-faraday-cage/
The EMP Threat From North Korea Is Real, and Terrifying
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Paging the “Aw Jeez” Man.
Hasn’t this garbage been bunked and debunked too many times to count over the years?
Yet it keeps coming back up.
Every redneck has a spare microwave sitting somewhere just use that as a Faraday cage.
PING!!!
Article and comments,
Thanks, rktman
We just don’t have the money to prepare for an EMP strike.
The money is all tied up in handing out free stuff to lllegal aliens, 4th generation moochers, and muslims who come here to overthrow the country.
It’s not hard for every home to have water purification on hand ( lifestraw and other means) and to stockpile some medicines ( vitamins and antibiotics) while it’s still possible to obtain them which the govt is attempting to stop
The Little Dictator isn't insane, although he wants everyone to think he is.
Yeah except that the only current manner to produce an EMP is to explode a nuclear bomb...that has world wide consequences that are far worse than losing the grid
Right now the fat boy can’t get a rocket off the launch pad
If the world’s most famous bird-watcher hits the USA with and EMP Weapon, he will get his Kimchi fried.
The threat is somewhat overrated: you need H-bombs to make an effective EMP weapon. I don’t believe NK has them yet.
Perhaps China or Russia could do this, not North Korea.
Nonsense.
I wish these idiots would do just a bit of research.
1) You need a thermonuclear detonation to create any sizable EMP
2)The higher in the atmosphere, the detonation occurs, the higher the EMP.
3) Large EMP effects only occur with +1MT detonated over 100 miles altitude.
This is part of the reason the Spartan program was canceled.
Sprint would still have worked as the warhead was ~1kt and lower in the atmosphere.
NK has no serious thermonuclear warheads. Only boosted technology limited to 40kt max
Existing yields have been more in the 1kt range.
If we shoot their satellites out of the sky, it might be more difficult for them to attack us and spy on us.
Bullcrap!!
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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Robert Scheer , With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush and Nuclear War, 1982.
Thomas J. Kerr , Civil Defense in the U.S.: Bandaid for a Holocaust?, 1983.
Paul Boyer , By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, 1985. Elaine May , Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era, 1986.
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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.
Do you really think the globalists that want to rule the world will allow this to happen to America? Can they rule the nation after we have lost our power? How much money will they lose if the power goes out? (Live Free or Die Hard?) What would the world lose if America was gone? Would NK hit SK at the same time? Would NK aim for Alaska or Hawaii? Who would benefit most to take America down in a second or two?
Just wondering.
Interestingly enough, it wouldn't hurt them much anyway.