This is the reason for the sudden alarm over Huawei.
Remember when they were going to develop and distribute a US anthrax vaccine..?
That was over 12 years ago.
Such BS - our military has been EMP hardened for 40 years. I think we have that figured out by now.
also warns that EMP or geomagnetic disturbances could cause catastrophic damage and the loss of life in the United States.
This much, at least, is true. Society in general is wide open to EMP attack.
I have some intimate knowledge on this program, as I researched methods to utilize EMP to trigger a cyber attack, at AFRL. The problem isn’t really government facilities, since those are somewhat harden but the fact that our government/DoD utilizes the “Cloud” (Google and Amazon servers) to store and process critical data. A lot of those server farms, because of their “eco friendly” purpose with open roofs to cool the servers, are extremely susceptible to an EMP attack.
It is very good they are taking this seriously. I know my friend Bill Forstchen, who wrote a bestselling novel based on an EMP attack, “One Second After,” has been warning for years about effects of an EMP blast.
Help me out here.
By what mechanism will an EMP be delivered?
My understanding is only a nuclear explosion can create enough electrical energy to disrupt components miles away from the actual explosion. And it has to be high-altitude to have the coverage required. It’s not like Achmed could blow up a nuke backpack from his rental SUV.
If so, we already have Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) well publicized to our potential enemies that a missile or bomber attack on our nation will be answered with full-on counterstrikes, even before the potential nuclear explosion arrives to EMP us to the stone age.
MAD has actually kept us safe for 50+ years. The biggest danger is a potential enemy thinking they can survive a nuclear war, at least the leadership, while completely destroying ours.
I just don’t see missiles being lobbed at us without a massive response. And frankly, if we wait to “see” who it is from or what is the purpose, we’re already dead.
Any attack requires a massive response on our potential enemies. Russians, Chinese, North Koreans and Iranians, to name a few.
Guess what? They all know this. The only ones we need to worry about are the mad mullahs of Iran, and even so, the Russkies better keep a leash on them, because if they want an Armageddon, Russia will be nuked, too.
The electromagnetism from magical EMP bomb will be so powerful, that it will suck the iron out of our blood, blowing it right through our skins. So we won’t have anything to worry about.
I should be a writer. Let’s see... “The Day After” was already by a gang of lefties as a title. How about “One Second After?” Uh, no. that’s already in use, too.
Oh, I know! I’ll call it “One Microsecond After!” Then, everyone will tell our leaders to completely get rid of our defense forces, and we’ll live happily ever after under globalism! Right on! Far out! “No more war!”
[Heapin’ helpin’ o’ stinky irony and sarcasm there.]
Oops...first rewrite here. ;-)
The electromagnetism from the magical EMP bomb will be so powerful, that it will suck the iron out of our blood, blowing it right through our skins. So we won’t have anything to worry about.
I should be a writer. Let’s see... “The Day After” was already written by a gang of lefties as a title. How about “One Second After?” Uh, no. that’s already in use, too.
Oh, I know! I’ll call it “One Microsecond After!” Then, everyone will tell our leaders to completely get rid of our defense forces, and we’ll live happily ever after under globalism! Right on! Far out! “No more war!”
[Heapin’ helpin’ o’ stinky irony and sarcasm there.]
The grid very well may go down but unlikely to be an EMP. It will more likely come from cyber hacking. I read that there are 10,000 cyber attacks on our grid everyday. Sooner or later somebody is going to hit that magic combination.
So I guess our only way to solve this is to perform EMP attacks on our main enemies before they do it to us