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EMP: Not if, but when
Am Thinker ^ | Dec 277, 2018 | J.M. Phelps

Posted on 12/27/2018 5:42:58 PM PST by upchuck

Dr. Peter Pry is the Executive Director of the EMP Task Force.

Pry explains there are three sources of EMP: the sun, nuclear weapons, and non-nuclear weapons.

The entire world would be affected, putting “electric grids and critical infrastructures” as well as “billions of lives” at risk. Pry believes it is “inevitable” that we will be struck by a Carrington-class geomagnetic storms, for “it’s not a question of if, but it’s a question of when will that happen.”

A second EMP threat stems from nuclear weapons “detonated at high altitude” of 30 to 400 kilometers. “A single nuclear weapon detonated at that altitude would create an electromagnetic field that would cover all of North America, most of Canada and a good part of Mexico.”

Non-nuclear EMP weapons, or radio frequency, weapons are a third cause for concern. “A non-nuclear EMP weapon has very limited range, typically a hundred yards or so, but the electric grid is so fragile that if you had a terrorist or criminal organization” with multiple radio frequency weapons, they “could cause a nationwide blackout” by attacking high-voltage (HV) transformers.

As the chief of staff of the congressional EMP commission for 17 years, he notes a number of concerns. Aircraft would fall from the sky and automobiles would fail to start. Water would no longer be available in homes. “We only have enough food to feed 326 million people for 30 days and the food would begin to spoil within 72 hours.”

Should a nationwide blackout occur for as long as a year, the EMP commission reports “90% of our population could starve to death, die from disease and societal chaos, and collapse.”

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: emp; empattack; endofthewold; hysteria; masspanic
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I had to really chop this up to meet the excerpting requirements. Suggest you visit the link to read the article.

If you're interested in what life would be like after an EMP attack, here's a book I can highly recommend. Check out the reviews.

1 posted on 12/27/2018 5:42:58 PM PST by upchuck
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To: upchuck

Hopefully our defenses are getting stronger with President Trump present. That book however was a very very very good read and I do Echo this recommendation.


2 posted on 12/27/2018 5:46:24 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Either the Wall gets built or America becomes a democrat socialist state.)
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To: upchuck
"that would cover all of North America, most of Canada and a good part of Mexico.”

all these yrs I thought North America was everything north of central America, including Canada..now I find out North America does not include Canada.

3 posted on 12/27/2018 5:47:08 PM PST by cherry (official troll)
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To: upchuck

I knew before clicking the link what book it would be. Fully agree. Also the EMP Commission reports: https://michaelmabee.info/three-new-emp-commission-reports-released/

Mostly, just anted to get in before the dumb people aka EMP deniers.


4 posted on 12/27/2018 5:47:50 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: CincyRichieRich

After reading the book I started thinking twice when I visit the grocery store. How about you?


5 posted on 12/27/2018 5:49:04 PM PST by upchuck (Q: What high crime has Trump committed? A: He won the 2016 Presidential election. ~ h/t dartuser)
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To: upchuck

It was a real eye-opening book. I know how to garden pretty well. I do have 90 days supply of food. I’m not going to be one of these people that puts a whole year away though.


6 posted on 12/27/2018 5:50:38 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Either the Wall gets built or America becomes a democrat socialist state.)
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To: cherry

Glad you noticed that. I did too. Apparently geography is not the author’s strong point.


7 posted on 12/27/2018 5:50:42 PM PST by upchuck (Q: What high crime has Trump committed? A: He won the 2016 Presidential election. ~ h/t dartuser)
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To: upchuck

EMP is almost as big of a hoax as global warming.


8 posted on 12/27/2018 5:50:54 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: bigbob

 knew before clicking the link what book it would be. Fully agree. Also the EMP Commission reports: https://michaelmabee.info/three-new-emp-commission-reports-released/

Mostly, just anted to get in before the dumb people aka EMP deniers.

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Why would something like this be released? Why I tell her enemies exactly where our vulnerabilities are? That seems to me like giving somebody the keys to our kingdom. Really really stupid.


9 posted on 12/27/2018 5:52:49 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Either the Wall gets built or America becomes a democrat socialist state.)
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To: cherry

North America does include Canada, as well as everything north of the continent of South America.


10 posted on 12/27/2018 5:53:54 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: upchuck

“As the chief of staff of the congressional EMP commission for 17 years” He has been paid for 17 years to make this report?


11 posted on 12/27/2018 5:54:36 PM PST by Fungi
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To: central_va

EMP is almost as big of a hoax as global warming.
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If you are willing to explain I am all ears. If I take a TV remote put it in the microwave and Run 1 second to circuitry is toasted. I would think this is a little bit related to that.


12 posted on 12/27/2018 5:55:58 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Either the Wall gets built or America becomes a democrat socialist state.)
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To: upchuck

Besides stocking up on canned goods at the grocery store I also try to keep my never driven 75 Fiat charged.

Apparently only the really old cars and trucks without computer chips will be able to run after an EMP.

There is also the small matter that it will be awfully hard to get the gas out of the tanks at the gas stations - without any electricity - to allow the old vehicles to run.

I suppose if one has an old vehicle which will run one will not find much traffic able to exit the large cities to get to the countryside.

In Washington state it would be difficult to decide in the wintertime whether to weather it in Western Washington’s temperate but socialist areas or try to get to Eastern Washington where there would be better people and more food growing but be really cold if it was winter.


13 posted on 12/27/2018 5:56:44 PM PST by angry elephant (My MAGA cap is from a rally in Washingon state in May 2016)
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To: cherry
North America WIKI

Oddly, I had no idea Greenland is considered part of North America.

14 posted on 12/27/2018 5:58:27 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: CincyRichieRich

I don’t think anything in the publicly released material would come as a surprise to those who might use EMP against us.

Or just listen to the dumb people, nothing to worry about so it’s not a problem. Pass the Unicorn-pooped Skittles...


15 posted on 12/27/2018 5:58:34 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: central_va

It’s real. It was discovered after a test above ground back in the 50’s.

Many places I go to work are EMP fortified.


16 posted on 12/27/2018 6:02:39 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: CincyRichieRich
EMP only affects things that are not shielded and it takes a lot of energy to ruin micro circuits. The energy falls of proportional to r2. For the most part your computer, if on, may act funny and all you you would have to do is reboot it. If your car was not running probably need to do nothing. The car hood is not a perfect but a pretty good EMP shield. Things that operate old school like small engines that have a magneto ignition would be totally unaffected.
17 posted on 12/27/2018 6:03:17 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: angry elephant
I'm just working down my overly large food storage and now I have to start thinking about saving more.....trouble is rotating....we just can't keep up....

I do use canning jars and other solid jars with lids for rice, pasta and I do use oxygen absorbents where needed...not much into mylar...

18 posted on 12/27/2018 6:04:14 PM PST by cherry (official troll)
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To: eyedigress

Of course EMP is real but the threat is totally blown out of proportion.


19 posted on 12/27/2018 6:04:24 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: upchuck

If EMP brings the US to its knees, the blame belongs to Senator Lisa Murkowski who killed legislation to protect the electric grid. https://www.newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/lisa-murkowski-emp-energy/2010/10/14/id/373768/


20 posted on 12/27/2018 6:05:02 PM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on)
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