Posted on 02/03/2022 6:03:30 PM PST by TigerClaws
The nation’s leading expert on protecting the electric grid from attack urges governors to take the lead because the Biden administration won’t.
In a new alert, Peter Vincent Pry, the executive director of the EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security, said concerns are growing that Russia, North Korea, and Iran are inching closer to testing an electromagnetic attack on the U.S. grid, or parts of it.
He noted the current crisis in Ukraine could spark a Russian attack, and he cited state media making the threat in the past.
“In April 2021, during the previous big crisis between Russia versus the U.S. and NATO over Ukraine, Moscow’s state-run TV broadcast to the world that: ‘War is inevitable…it will be a Cyber War,’” Pry said in his note, shown below.
He said Florida has been threatened “to deter the U.S. from helping Ukraine.”
And he said just last month, a member of the Russian Duma (the country's Congress) “proposed warning Washington that Moscow is serious about nuclear war over Ukraine — by launching a hypersonic warhead to detonate on or over the Nevada nuclear test area. A nuclear or non-nuclear EMP demonstration could blackout Nevada or the entire Western Grid.”
Former President Donald Trump took some steps to protect grids around the country, but they remain open to either an attack or a natural hit from a solar flare.
With Washington stalled, he suggested governors take the lead and even drafted a model executive order they could use.
“The White House and Congress have tried to protect the nation’s electric grids and other life-sustaining critical infrastructures through executive orders and legislation. But federal departments, agencies, and regulatory bodies, through incompetence or corruption or both, have all failed to make our nation safe from EMP and Cyber Warfare,” he said.
In a recent report on the impact of a power grid outage, Pry warned that up to 90% of the U.S. population could die during a year without power.
I wonder if the media coverage would be different if it were Trump threatening war to defend a country that had given one of his children millions of dollars.
“Russia, North Korea, and Iran are inching closer to testing an electromagnetic attack on the U.S. grid, or parts of it.”
This thing is on the same timetable as Iran’s nukes. I’ve been hearing about both for decades now.
A weapon which destroys a national electrical grid, is by definition a WMD when you account for the complete effect in terms of destruction of life and the means of life.
Not permitted, just like any other nuke exploded above surface.
Not talking ‘bout no treaty, talking about the policy of this zoo since at least 1965.
1. Ukraine is a country
2. The Ukraine is a geographical region that predates the existence of the country.
Much like how America existed prior to The United States.
I like and agree with your way of thinking. (so you should probably seek help!)
“Remember when our grandparents warned us “Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket.”
The same ones that used one basket to collect their eggs?
I’d bet the farm Brandon doesn’t have a clue as to how easy such an attack could be carried out, or the devastation that such an attack would cause.
I think the 90% dead would be within 3-4 months; sooner if it took place during cold winter months.
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Yep! Many people, some on FR, seem not to understand that a full-blown meltdown of the country’s power grid could, and probably would, cause murders on a massive scale, even cannibalism, as the food supply vanishes. People in hospitals on life support would die by the boatload, fuel supplies for the operation of homes, businesses, and motorized vehicles would become unobtainable. Deadly diseases would become widespread. So yeah, I think your estimates are quite realistic.
I have stocked up on food,
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Food that will last for how long, and for how many people?
China has been buying-up USA farmland.
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That is because the morons who are elected/appointed to defend our country have done nothing to prevent China or any other country from doing so. They’re all too busy devising ways to become personally wealthy and the hell with the USA!
Yes, it would be horrendous. And many of the survivors would be relative short term survivors. Not many would last for longer than a few years.
I assume trucks would still somehow roll unless EMP knocks them out as well?
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An EMP attack would be intended to cause a major meltdown of the country’s electrical grid. Without electricity, gas supplies would become inaccessible within a week or less because the whole fuel supply system is dependent upon electric power. Also the operation of water supply systems for home wells and for the delivery systems of cities large and small require electric power.
Biden Says He Gave Putin a ‘List’ of Critical Infrastructure, Warning Russians Not to Hack
What a joke
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