Life After An EMP Attack: No Power, No Food, No Transportation, No Banking And No Internet

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[chessplayer]

Most Americans do not know this, but a single EMP attack could potentially wipe out most of the electronics in the United States and instantly send this nation back to the 1800s. If a nuclear bomb was exploded high enough in the atmosphere over the middle part of the country, the electromagnetic pulse would fry electronic devices from coast to coast. The damage would be millions of times worse than 9/11. Just imagine a world where nobody has power, most cars will not start, the Internet has been fried, the financial system is offline indefinitely, nobody can make any phone calls and virtually all commerce across the entire country is brought to a complete stop. A nation that does not know how to live without technology would be almost entirely stripped of it at that point. Yes, this could really happen. An EMP attack is America's "Achilles heel", and everyone around the world knows it. It is only a matter of time before someone uses an EMP weapon against us, and at this point we are pretty much completely unprepared.

[RushingWater]

The last days are described in Revelations and it says for 3 days the world will look at the slain prophets . . . Looks like TV, internet stay intact up until it’s almost all over anyway.

[sthguard]

Silence, infidel! The mighty mighty Cylons will crush your insolence for daring to question the Holy EMP!

[crosshairs]

No FreeRepublic? This is series!

[Kartographer]

A Cobalt bomb though possible is impracticable. A nuclear bomb built to maximize EMP effect is both possible and practical. i.e. Neutron Bomb

[DCBryan1]

There are bombs today that are designed to cause EMP.

Yes, according to OSINT nuclear warhead info, was that Russia had 25-50 EMP specific warheads, mainly to disrupt commo in the DC area, Kings Bay, Bremerton, Site R, Camp David, Omaha, Barksdale AFB, Whiteman AFB, and the LCC Minuteman facilities in the Dakotas.

Stay 100 miles away from silos and SLBM/bomber bases and you'll be ok ;) I'm not scared of nukes, they are just big explosives with a some nasty residual effects....I'm scared of the panic that misinformation causes and esp. Demoncrats being on the NCC and JCoS and executive branches.

[Afterguard]

Good point. While we were not as dependent on electronics at t he time, we need to remember that in the late 60’s and early 70’s, both the Soviets and the US conducted near-earth space detonations of nucs. No major disruptions were experienced as far as I know. I’m skeptical, but would rather not actually have the experience.

[demsux]

We ought to test out the effects of an EMP attack over the nuclear facilities in Iran.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

From Heritage:

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/08/before-the-lights-go-out-a-survey-of-emp-preparedness-reveals-significant-shortfalls

[GonzoGOP]

Russia and China don’t need thousands or hundreds of nukes. Just one would be sufficient to completely destroy this country.

Yes, but an EMP needs to be launched on a rocket. A rocket gives you a launch point. A launch point gives you a target. And EMP doesn't do a darn thing to a submerged sub. So while one EMP will wreck the US economy, a hundred or so Trident II D5 missiles are going to wreck the whole day of whoever launched it.

[ZX12R]

I don’t think it would affect me one bit. I certainly feel for those in cities and suburbs but my family and neighbors would be just fine. Simple country folk we are.

Same here, I don't worry too much about these kinds of scenarios. We are far from any large city, have ten acres among several hundreds of acres, within walking distance to a river for fishing, well water, septic tank, game is plentiful, deer, turkeys, rabbits, squirrels, enough wood for fuel to last us several lifetimes. Our neighbors are the same. And in Florida wear the climate is mild. Life would change, but it would go on fine.

[Gator113]

This may be a stupid question, but I have a metal roof, will that mitigate the effects on things kept within the house?

[njslim]

Worse

No Internet = No Porn.......

[Flavius]

Will my iPhone work

[DCBryan1]

Not many neutron bombs left in inventory. France has cores available, not deployable. It is thought that 10-20 neutron bombs in China's arsenal, <50 in Russia, and approx. 25-30 in Israel's. I can't confirm or deny if we have any neutron bombs left in inventory....might have to travel to Albuquerque or Pantex to find that out.....just ask at the gate.

Oh, and I think that most neutron bombs are more efficient and under 10-20 KT IIRC limiting it as a strategic role unless it goes after command and control.

Neutron bombs don't scare me.....Marxist Muslim national leaders do.

[Menehune56]

I’ve been wondering if the mystery missile off Southern California back in 2010 might have been a demonstration of an EMP delivery system by a hostile power.

[discostu]

It’s only scary stuff until you realize just how far up the bomb has to be to achieve the effects described. That “single attack” bomb would have to be higher up than the space shuttle. EMPs are a boogie man. A boogie man the sewing fear crowd has been waving around for 40+ years, but the suckers still keep freaking out.

[DCBryan1]

This may be a stupid question, but I have a metal roof, will that mitigate the effects on things kept within the house?

Depends on how close you are to the explosion! LOL....

Seriesly, I don't know...probably is some mitigating factors, but you'd have to ask an electronic theory/physics type of guy.

[dfwgator]

No Internet?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[steve8714]

If the grid and other critical components haven’t been HAEMP protected yet, that’s malfeasance. The USAF has been protecting sites since the early 1980s, using bricks-and-mortar type tech.

[Tenacious 1]

What makes everyone think our power grid is so fragile?

We believe it because “they” say so.

The power grid is actually a pretty high tech sophisticated system. Want proof? Think of the Enron engineered rolling black outs. With technology today, we are able to pinpoint outages and reroute power.

The next time someone tells you how vulnerable our power grid is ask them what we need to upgrade? More power generation? More wire? More switches? More substations? New technology? Nobody can answer that question because it's become cliche.