Posted on 07/15/2005 10:29:12 AM PDT by joanie-f
FYI
For later
Hey when simple nearby lightning bolt can knock out PCs we know that an EMP will put a complete halt to civilization as we know it. Lightning only 1/4 mile away wrecks havoc on today's LAN (local area network) wiring and in-turn the PC damage from there in. As the circuitry gets faster it gets denser and smaller and even more susceptable to EMP damage.
We will not be able to buy gas or buy groceries, etc because everything has a chip in it.
Take it up with all of the respected people she has quoted, and the report of the congressional commission.
Awesome research Joanie. Just awesome! Thanks much for the ping!
"If they were, our space bursts in the 50's and 60's would have wiped out Hawaii, and instead they just screwed up AM radio for a few minutes."
Hawaii had tube type electronics in that day. The semiconductor of the last 20 years are 1000 times more susceptable to damage from EMPs.
Nuclear subs are immune to EMP. Immune.
Very thorough research, joanie--thanks for the good work.
You got that right. And all of the people who are claiming that EMP won't cause the damage that it will, and that the informed ones are "chicken littles" are too blind to see the writing on the wall. It's a major threat that could leave us pretty defenseless.
IMO, the lack of focus on the EMP scenario is one of our leadership’s most deadly oversights.
Have you read the congressional report? AND if nuclear subs being immune are all you're concerned about you're pretty short sighted.
I agree China is a very, very serious threat.
I'll bookmark for later reading.
ping
Nice work Joanie, interesting how much danger we face
TODAY because of the actions of just TWO democrat Presidents.
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Our strategy has to be based on immediate response.
An EMF attack isn't going to affect subs off the coast of China, and the Chinese need to know that any nuclear attack will result in the annihilation of their military. The response needs to be quick and automatic, because obviously if we have time to think about it, we have time for nuclear blackmail to have its effect.
And we have to let them know that an attack from North Korea will be viewed as an attack by China, and responded to in the very same way.
But frankly, our support for Taiwan, in any case, will be limited. Our military is no longer designed to sustain a war with China. At one time we were manned for a so-called "2-1/2 war" scenario, in which theoretically we could take on the Soviets, the Chinese, and the Cubans simultaneously.
Those days are long gone. Now a war with a Cuba-sized military is all we can handle.
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