Posted on 10/12/2017 3:57:51 PM PDT by bitt
Congress was warned Thursday that North Korea is capable of attacking the U.S. today with a nuclear EMP bomb that could indefinitely shut down the electric power grid and kill 90 percent of "all Americans" within a year.
At a House hearing, experts said that North Korea could easily employ the "doomsday scenario" to turn parts of the U.S. to ashes.
In calling on the Pentagon and President Trump to move quickly to protect the grid, the experts testified that an explosion of a high-altitude nuclear bomb delivered by a missile or satellite "could be to shut down the U.S. electric power grid for an indefinite period, leading to the death within a year of up to 90 percent of all Americans."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Not that I believe the doom and gloom of that article, but agriculture is very dependent on electronics, and it’s not only possible, but very likely that the cows won’t be milked,watered, or fed without a herculean effort on the part of the farmer, and even then many will die.
Many won’t die. Many will spend much more money on food. There will be massive inflation for food. Not deaths.
“Turn your screen name into a double entendre”
You take that back!
I do believe you may be on to something
But no. 18 months is too long. For 18 Billion, you can have them in 6 months !
And people aged very quickly and died a lot younger for a whole host of different reasons.
I guess it would finish the destruction that Y2K started...
No fertilizer production.
No transport of seed and fertilizer.
No distribution of insecticides and herbicides, or production of same.
No diesel fuel for plowing, planting, harvesting.
No electricity for milking (nearly all milk cows are milked with electric milking machines.
No electricity for processing harvests, storing them, distributing them.
If you have no electricity or communications, agriculture as practiced in the United States dies quickly. Many farms have enough supplies to operate for a month.
But we are talking a year here.
A complete plowing, planting, harvesting, storing, and distribution cycle.
Without power, how do the fuel stations on the interstate operate? How do the trains communicate with the communications infrastructure gone, destroyed by the EMP?
I am not saying that is probable or likely. I think we are tough and getting tougher under President Trump.
But *given* no grid or communications, the vast majority of agriculture stalls to a halt very, very quickly.
Prepper ping !
If we protect the grid, whether the sun did it or Norks or Iran did it, we would be in better shape than doing NOTHING.
People have been warning about this for several years.
I don’t know if exponentially is the correct term, but you are right. It has to be line-of-sight. You can get the distance to the horizon at some altitude on google, and if I remember correctly, it has to be 250 miles or so to encompass the whole country.
Combine that with the fact that the intensity of the pulse decreases with the square of the distance and it would have to be a HUGE thermonuclear EMP device to effect the continental U.S.. NK cant come close.
It ain’t going to happen...
EMP strikes will not destroy all electronic appliances or vehicles in the U.S.A. EMP strikes will not shut down power grids for any great length of time, if the associated power companies have enough transformers and other needed hardware ready to install.
We really do not know, with precision, what high level EMP strikes would do. What testing I know about, indicated that the destruction would be far from complete.
It would sure cause a mess for a while, though.
I agree that now is the time to prevent the nuclear arming of rogue nations. We have been at war with North Korea for over 60 years.
Once again we have dopes who know nothing spewing sh##
Just sayin
What an utter crock. On so many levels. Wish they would release a formal report including assumptions on how they came to this conclusion.
Trains will be repaired quickly as well as trucks. The will get priority. Imports of grains will increase for sure and there will be inflation.
Without power, how do the fuel stations on the interstate operate?
They are called generators and most have magneto type ignition. So like I said previously.
“It’s to bad we can’t EMP them first.
Not a move to make where there is no power grid!
Th NORKS have no electricity to boast about.
Great series.
Also “Ligts Out” and Patriots.
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