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The EMP Threat From North Korea Is Real, and Terrifying
pjmedia.com ^ | 4/25/2017 | John R. Moore

Posted on 04/26/2017 8:02:05 AM PDT by rktman

While the total wipeout depicted in One Second After is probably exaggerated, the effects could knock out our power grid for months, and destroy critical communications and computer systems. As former CIA chief James Woolsey recently said:

If you look at the electric grid and what it's susceptible to, we would be moving into a world with no food delivery, no water purification, no banking, no telecommunications, no medicine. All of these things depend on electricity in one way or another.

In such a situation, there simply is no way to rule out the possibility that hundreds of millions could die.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: boggitboggity; electricgrid; emp; empthreat; nkthreat; northkorea; powergrid; preppers; shtf
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To: proust
There is the old saying, 'A Stitch In Time Saves Nine'.

Fatso had a artillery display recently and it seems to me, a few Sensor Fused Stiches could end this all very quickly. Not a very good tactical decision putting all these together.


101 posted on 04/26/2017 11:02:16 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: pierrem15

Russians EMP effects in 1962

Ihttp://www.futurescience.com/emp/test184.html

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Electromagnetic pulse is a strange and mysterious phenomenon to most of the general public. Even for most of us who have read and studied a lot about EMP over the years, something that is even more strange and mysterious is the Soviet Union’s series of nuclear tests in space, most notably the test known only as K-3 or Test 184. These EMP-producing tests were done over a large populated land mass in Kazakhstan. Even though the economic state of Kazakhstan in 1962 was quite primitive by today’s standards, it was heavily industrialized and electrified... (more at link)


102 posted on 04/26/2017 11:03:15 AM PDT by GOPJ (Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out... - - Horowitz)
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To: rktman

I’ve been told that old microwaves make excellent faraday cages for smaller objects.


103 posted on 04/26/2017 11:04:35 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: T-Bone Texan
"No, common bleach would not work just fine. Many limitations to that product."

I've used it for years as a water purifier - it's always worked for me.

104 posted on 04/26/2017 11:07:10 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: rktman

What??


105 posted on 04/26/2017 11:13:28 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: T-Bone Texan

But it is still nuclear based


106 posted on 04/26/2017 11:35:38 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Ancesthntr
Uh, “Fat Boy” has 2, count ’em, 2 satellites in orbit.

Since those two satellites may well be nuclear delivery devices, perhaps they should have some sort of "accident".

107 posted on 04/26/2017 11:44:02 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

A few billion dollars could be spent if it is a priority. If not for an EMP attack just to shield the grid from a Carrington type solar event. It doesn’t have to be spent all at once but over a two-four year period it makes sense to secure the grid.


108 posted on 04/26/2017 12:02:03 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: Ancesthntr; All
"...Necessity strips away morality and civility..."

Of all your wisdom excreted onto this thread, this is perhaps the most underrated, profound, and most ignored.

I look at our country and culture from a sociological perspective, and I posit that the neighbor that currently merely does not like you would, when the going gets tough, be perfectly willing to slit your child's throat if it meant one more day of life for them.

Civilization, morality, and civility is a thin veneer. Simply put, many folks nowadays are self-serving pricks. You see it on the roads. You see it in your interactions with strangers.

109 posted on 04/26/2017 12:02:43 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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To: pierrem15

Thank you for your honesty - many here on this thread seem to not want to face unpleasant facts, and prefer to fall back on their preferences as to how the world should be, rather than how it is. That is refreshing.

And, yes, we have to be very worried about Nork nukes, given that the guy in charge over there has a whole drawer full of loose screws rolling around under that ugly haircut. He’s just the type to try to take down everyone around if he thinks that he’s on the way out.


110 posted on 04/26/2017 1:45:18 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Ancesthntr

Well, to be like a dementocrat, EVERYBODY on FR MUST like things the way I like them. Or else! You have been warned. LOL!


111 posted on 04/26/2017 1:55:59 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: circlecity

“That’s what all the guns and ammo are for.”


I’ve got them, too...and so do, or will, the zombies. While I will certainly fight if I must, the much better survival tactic is to remain unnoticed and not HAVE to fight. Any time you fight, your risk (and that of your loved ones) of not surviving goes up. A simple and relatively cheap filter will allow you to avoid this problem, at least for a while - so why do you resist it so much?

“Also, I can also build a smokeless fire to boil water indoors, no problem.”


Please explain that one. I never heard of a smokeless fire before.


112 posted on 04/26/2017 2:14:48 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: JimRed

I’d be very glad if they had an “accident,” preferably one preceeded by a couple milliseconds by a very bright, coherent light.

Alas, since nukes don’t put out a lot of radiation (almost none, in fact) until detonated, we just about can’t know whether they are aboard these satellites or not. I assume so. Hence the “accident” had better be simultaneous, or nearly so.


113 posted on 04/26/2017 2:19:28 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: RegulatorCountry

“I’ve been told that old microwaves make excellent faraday cages for smaller objects.”


Except that there is a big leak into the thing in the form of the wire to the plug. Best to cut that off and tape a bunch of aluminum foil over the nub area.


114 posted on 04/26/2017 2:21:16 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: T-Bone Texan

“I look at our country and culture from a sociological perspective, and I posit that the neighbor that currently merely does not like you would, when the going gets tough, be perfectly willing to slit your child’s throat if it meant one more day of life for them.”


Try 10 minutes, and you’ll be closer to accurate.

“Civilization, morality, and civility is a thin veneer. Simply put, many folks nowadays are self-serving pricks. You see it on the roads. You see it in your interactions with strangers.”


Indeed. One need not be a psychic to see the truth in this. Hell, just look at how many people treat each other on the internet.


115 posted on 04/26/2017 2:23:31 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Ancesthntr

Any time you fight, your risk (and that of your loved ones) of not surviving goes up.,,,THAT is where the fun comes in.


116 posted on 04/26/2017 2:26:18 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Bigg Red

8 drops per gallon


117 posted on 04/26/2017 2:40:35 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Ancesthntr

Correct. The current “normalcy bias” is that most Americans don’t realize how fragile this “economy” is after 8 disastrous years of The Manchurian Candidate which followed W. spending like a drunken (whatever).

95 million of us know it first-hand and it’s eye-popping in starkness.


118 posted on 04/26/2017 2:41:17 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Ancesthntr; Travis McGee

[when people are willing to trample each other to get $50 off of a big-screen TV on Black Friday, what do you think that they’ll do when their kids are starving to death and there are no cops?]

Which is why I believe large cities will eventually become no-go-zones.


119 posted on 04/26/2017 2:45:47 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Keyhopper

Thank you.


120 posted on 04/26/2017 2:58:39 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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