Major population areas gone.
Then the conservatives in Fly Over will rise again.
Re-establish the Constitution, revive biblical values. Hmmm.
Posted on 08/14/2015 7:41:19 PM PDT by HomerBohn
Just four days after U.S.-led global powers and Iran completed their nuclear deal, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, reaffirmed the "Death to America" mantra that has pervaded his regime since its establishment in 1979, stating, "The entire country is under the umbrella of this great movement."
Iran has killed hundreds of Americans in the Middle East, both directly and through its terrorist proxies. It has threatened U.S. regional interests by funding anti-Israeli terrorists, propping up Syria's terror-backing Bashar al-Assad and de-stabilizing U.S.-backed governments.
Moving forward, this deal will enable Tehran to threaten U.S. security more directly in at least two ways:
First, Iran could deploy a nuclear warhead on one of its ballistic missiles and fire it at the United States. Iran is building increasingly sophisticated ballistic missiles, with its Shahab-3 able to reach Israel, and the Sejjil that it's developing capable of reaching Italy and Poland.
Tehran also announced plans to build missile silos in what experts consider a precursor to deploying longer range missiles.
Second, Iran could detonate a nuclear device over the United States in an electromagnetic pulse attack that destroys our electric grid, putting the nation in the dark for months and eventually leaving 90 percent of Americans dead from disease or starvation.
Iran has tested how to conduct an EMP attack, such as by attaching a nuclear weapon to an orbiting satellite or launching a nuclear-armed missile into the atmosphere from a ship.
Iranian military leaders have endorsed an EMP attack against America, according to secret Iranian military documents that Pentagon officials have translated, and the Pentagon's North American Aerospace Defense Command is moving back into Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado because it can resist an EMP attack.
That Iran can develop nuclear weapons under the deal, making these two scenarios plausible, is clear; the only question is when.
For starters, the deal is time-limited and, as restrictions end in 10-15 years, Iran can pursue two paths to a bomb - enriching uranium to weapons-grade levels or building plutonium-producing reactors, or both.
But Tehran need not wait that long because international inspectors will be hard-pressed to confirm that Iran is abiding by the deal's restrictions on how much uranium it's enriching, how many centrifuges it's operating, and what it may be doing at secret sites that the world has not yet discovered.
That's because rather than "anywhere, anytime" inspections, Iran will have 24 days to comply with requests from the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit a suspected undeclared site, during which Iran can move, hide, or destroy evidence of its nuclear progress.
If Iran refuses to allow a site visit after 24 days, global leaders likely would begin further negotiations with Iran that would give the latter weeks more to clean up a site.
Nor, under this deal, must Tehran reveal the military-related dimensions of its nuclear work to date, leaving the world dangerously ignorant of how close it already is to developing and deploying a nuclear weapon and also leaving inspectors without a baseline against which to judge Iranian compliance in the future.
Moreover, the $100 billion to $150 billion in sanctions relief will give Iran a huge windfall to develop a more robust infrastructure for nuclear weapons production - either quickly by evading the weak inspections regime or more patiently by waiting about a decade until the world frees Iran of all restrictions.
Those who, in light of this deal and Iran's missile and EMP work, nevertheless dismiss the "Death to America" threats from Iran as just political rhetoric might heed the words of former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban: "It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."
The book One Second After shows how 90% is not unreasonable. Scarier than hell book.
History is written by the victors.
If this covert muslim single handedly brings down “The Great Satan”, his praises will be sung in mosques for millennia.
What better write-up, how much more glory could any human hope for?
Interesting map. Alaska has a strong military presence with both air a ground force capability to reach both China and Eastern Russia. Not including missiles.
Major population areas gone.
Then the conservatives in Fly Over will rise again.
Re-establish the Constitution, revive biblical values. Hmmm.
Methinks it is also Obama’s drive to insert the Brotherhood everywhere and kill off Israel. Obama is upset the Israelis are UNITED in their opposition to the foolish deal. He says the Israelis are the ONLY ones opposed - it's the “YOU LIE” all over again.
Dead liberals tell no tales.
“Taking Saddam out was a monumental mistake.”
Well in my view if Obama had left our Troops based in Iraq would have worked.
Obama is responsible for this disaster.
A nuclear Saddam or an IsIS mess in Iraq, I choose the latter, thanks.
“The rural population will be fine. Most of the deaths will be in the cities.”
And when the info structure dependent city dwellers descend upon the rural areas like a plague of locusts? Read “One Minute After” some time. Very informative and disturbing.
See Starfish Prime. 1.4 megatons 250 miles above the Pacific. Quoting the Wikipedia article:
Starfish Prime caused an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) which was far larger than expected, so much larger that it drove much of the instrumentation off scale, causing great difficulty in getting accurate measurements. The Starfish Prime electromagnetic pulse also made those effects known to the public by causing electrical damage in Hawaii, about 1,445 kilometres (898 mi) away from the detonation point, knocking out about 300 streetlights, setting off numerous burglar alarms and damaging a telephone company microwave link. The EMP damage to the microwave link shut down telephone calls from Kauai to the other Hawaiian islands.[5]
 As seen from Honolulu |
Obama is responsible for this disaster.
I agree on that but it was still a mistake.
Thanks for the info. I was not aware a test like this had been made.
Thanks.
I don’t believe there will be time to develop the needed skill sets. With electro-mechanical mechanization down harvesting crops will be virtually impossible. Transportation will be down anyway. Where will water come from? There will be no electricity to run them. How about gas and diesel stations. No power no pumps. No refineries. These are just quick thought. I think 90% causality rate is ball park. If 0 is in office I believe he will not respond to defend the country.
I’m most certain the power companies, under probably sealed federal orders and payment, have been installing surge sink stations and equipment nation-wide for years. You’ll notice them along (lower) high voltage 3-phase runs everywhere, where they never were just a couple years ago. The 90% dead within a year is now probably not going to happen as power won’t be out nationally, just locally and spotty. Project Starfish provided more propaganda fuel than reality requirements for prevention.
Quit being realistic and reasonable. You should reference a fiction novel and quote Wiki. It’s time to totally freak out!
That was one of the reasons they ceased atmospheric testing. These test were also performed before the electronic age—today 90% of all electronics would fail. People think only of computers, but almost all major systems have embedded electronics these days.
We have to pass it so we’ll see what’s in it.
I'm having a hard time believing the above
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