Wow.
It’s about darned time.
Excellent.
Someone’s gearing the country up for the imminent attack on NK.
Better now than later when they have 50 accurate nukes.
Is tomorrow the day?
Just about the time the levees break is when action happens.
I’m not counting on these bozos to do anything they say. Just sayin.
Not quite as vulnerable anymore.
It was for a time. An EMP would require a nuke at low level.
That is not going to happen. As for all the snowflakes that do not want us to confront NK, when?
We are not under Obama and his idiocy anymore. NK will not advance their program of mass destruction.
I thought that was all part of Obama's fantastic national reconstruction. Shovel-ready jobs. All useful projects.
All taken care of.
Hasn't anyone noticed?
They better get it done in the next 24 hrs.
In a statement, DARPA said it is "interested, specifically, in early warning of impending attack..."
I guess "we are going to nuke you" doesn't count as an early warning.
William F. Buckley wrote about our electric grid vulnerability way back in the 60s.
Today we have infinitely more dependence on power.
BTW, Verizon has been out all afternoon here in NW Florida.
I am no electrician but my brothers-in-law are. When I asked this question to them, they said that the best protection for the least cost would be to put in an AC-DC-AC “thing” at each high voltage line that crosses a state line.
They said that it would not stop the damage but would go a long way to isolate the damaged caused.
Just passing on - not knowledgeable enough to comment
Poor snowflakes - they were so much fun, now they're all starving, poor things.
Just so everybody understands. We don’t have an electrical grid. We have lots of little grids that sometimes connect to other grids for power sharing.
You cannot protect the grid. Our grid is unbelievably open to a ICBM attack. Russia could take out our grids quite easily. Everywhere we have a Damn or any other power source, a well aimed ICBM could easily turn it off. Then there are the miles of unprotected wire that transports electricity to and between cities. All very much wide open and always will be.
The question is whether or not North Korea could get a rocket across the pacific. NO. Could they hit anything if they could get it here. NO. Could they explode a bomb on the target. NO.
Could they cause real harm to South Korea, Yes. Could they do damage to Japan, Yes but not as much.
Should China help us take out North Korea, yes. Why would they help us. Because our Navy would go away. We have promised to protect both Japan and South Korea. If North Korea is no longer a threat, the US would scale down and spend our defense money elsewhere. China would love that.
But lets be clear. North Korea is no threat to our electricity grid today. And China and Russia could easily take out our electricity. Russia especially. And there is no ability to make it safe from attack of either of those two countries.
Would anyone know if this is “normal”??
U2 flying over California
Emergency Action Messages Continue to be Heard on Multiple Bands with several E-6B AC AIRBORNE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nCCga2pZiM
Since the EMP would try everything electrical, what kind of weapons would we yes to retaliate that don’t use electricity?
Since the EMP would try everything electrical, what kind of weapons would we yes to retaliate that don’t use electricity?
So, last year they let out a fat contract for something like $700 million to Raytheon (I think it was them anyway) to move NORAD back to Cheyenne Mountain mostly because they're worried about an EMP attack..
At least the tech weenies at the Pentagon have taken this threat seriously for twenty plus years but we're just now going to do something about it? Or so they say
8 yrs late.