They care **even more** about this topic than Las Vegas investigation transparency.
isn’t that comforting..?
Are they trying to say that having no electricity would cause 90% our population to die off?
Bull!
Americans are more resilient than this. Also more helpful as well as resourceful when needed. Firewood would instantly become bigtime collection and distribution trade. Food and medicine sharing programs for the disabled and sick. Street-level volunteer infrastructure repair groups will form.
William R. Graham, chairman of the former EMP commission and its former chief of staff, Peter Vincent Pry,
Now you can google far and wide to try to understand Dr. Pry's technical qualifications in this area and you will come up empty because he is not a scientist or engineer but some political scientist enmeshed in the swamp business of getting a payoff for running a consultancy advocating for various policy initiatives that will, so the hope goes, result in a massive payoff for his paymasters, some other defense consultant contract who will also get paid even bigger bucks to study the problem.
There are experts in this area. They are at places like Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the nuclear weapons laboratories. But we don't here much from them on this subject. It isn't about solving a problem, but horning in on the business of national security consulting.
Yes parts of the major power grid would go out and many vehicle computers along with some cell phones, computers etc. would likely become boat anchors.
However people are resourceful. They will find/make their own clean water. They will use bicycles and horse carts t move/distribute goods. They will go to junkyards and repair pre-computer vehicles. They will thumb their nose at Clean air regulations and heat homes with wood and coal.
Many have a month or so of supplies on hand (including firearms and ammo) to do well in just about any kind of disaster. Depending on the time of year victory gardens will spring up all over the place.
Don't under-estimate good people's will to survive.
Deaths, yes, 90%.....not likely.
Part of Texas has a parallel power grid which we would get up and running if there was too much delay restarting the national grid.
I read an article that hardware stores are in a panic as the younger generation has no idea how to make or fix anything. Their pastime of electronic devices would cease and they would be lost. The young and the old that could not take care of themselves would be lost. Rural people would have a big advantage over city people as we already deal with power outages and many of the problems associated with dealing with less.
And the remaining 10% would be rural “red state” residents who still remembered how to hunt, fish and live off the land...
Finally, proof that 90 percent of Americans are androids!
Is there actually any evidence of this or is it grant time hyperbole?
I have read the article twice and conclude both times that it is misleading BS. Speculation at best. Heck, no one has ever tested an EMP device and nothing (1) suggests it works, (2) that it could cover the US, and (3) that it would kill people. This is simply fearmongering at its worst. Click-bait more likely.
No problem here.... “A Country Boy Can Survive”
Live in the country on a river with trout, deer, rabbit, turkeys, and good farming land.... We can also fire up the old family still. Surrounded by all family here (well armed) and Family members who do not live here know where to go for safety.
Those city folk might have something to worry about, we don’t, We Are Country.
For that 90% kill number to work, citizens would first have to be deprived of their 2nd amendment right to self protection. Not yet, but congress is working on it...
This is why Trump is so important... if he does nothing else while in office, he stopped Hillary from being president. For that alone, he deserves a place among the pantheon of the heroes of liberty!
Not to worry though.
The 10% that would survive include congress, msm, Hollywood, DNC and their families and gay partners.
The electrical grid is especially vulnerable, given its interconnected nature. The destruction of part of the grid would overload the entire system, leading to cascade failures across the board.
This is one of the most irresponsible and hysterical articles I’ve read recently. Yes, nuclear weapons produce an EMP field. However, the U.S. set off thousands of nuclear weapons on their own soil (1054 test of which 219 were atmospheric). Most of these tests were in the desert near Los Vegas and the Hoover Dam for that matter. The power grid was not destroyed.
Even if you built an enhanced EMP weapon, at best the effect is local. The idea the power grid for the entire country would collapse is absurd. The worst cascade failure was the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965. 30 Million without power. Following that cascade failure, the electrical system was broken up to prevent such a cascade on such a scale.
Millions did not die and the power was not out for a year. The fact that the system effectively triggers massive circuit breakers is actually a good thing, protecting the physical wires from being overloaded, much like the circuit breakers in your own home. How do you recover from a cascade failure? Much like your own home, you reset the breakers. It won’t take a year, or a month, It would not likely even take a week.
We have an ongoing experiment right now with PR...
The island is basically without power...
Biggest secret in the world that 90 % of the island died off...
Nonsense. Heck, 20% of the country won’t even notice. LOL City living will suck for a little while, but, hey, it already sucks, anyway, ....uh ... from what I can tell.
I think this is a ploy on our part to sucker the NorKs into nuking air so that we can nuke NorKs. It’s a good trade, imo.
Mush the Skeptical Strategerist
expert testimony = a Democrat . Saying surrender now and pay up ?
These estimates are so grossly exaggerated that they look foolish. Would it create havoc, for sure, but not the devastation they are claiming.
Anything put into orbit by NK that passes above the US should be ASAT target practice on the first or second pass.