Congress warned North Korean EMP attack would kill '90% of all Americans'

The Washington Examiner ^ | Oct 12, 2017 | Paul Bedard

[bitt]

Congress was warned Thursday that North Korea is capable of attacking the U.S. today with a nuclear EMP bomb that could indefinitely shut down the electric power grid and kill 90 percent of "all Americans" within a year.

At a House hearing, experts said that North Korea could easily employ the "doomsday scenario" to turn parts of the U.S. to ashes.

In calling on the Pentagon and President Trump to move quickly to protect the grid, the experts testified that an explosion of a high-altitude nuclear bomb delivered by a missile or satellite "could be to shut down the U.S. electric power grid for an indefinite period, leading to the death within a year of up to 90 percent of all Americans."

[vortec94]

“Lights Out” as well

[bitt]

glad to see everyone’s still awake!..

Have been noticing more and more gov’t articles, commercials, radio discussions of personal preparedness and responsibility even before the hurricane season.. more testing of the alert systems.. more local civic discussions of and meetings for neighborhood ‘captains’ for emergency situations..

some people await the arrival of the death meteor, some the sun flare, and with NK acting up, ...

[VideoDoctor]

Congress warned North Korean EMP attack would kill '90% of all Americans'

I say we BELIEVE it as the ABSOLUTE TRUTH. WHY?

Then it would be TOTALLY appropriate to take out North Korea COMPLETELY as a direct threat to America.

[Ancesthntr]

“Americans have lived without running water and electricity. They were called your great great grandparents.”

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But they were used to it, and all of the technology surrounding them was built for it. We are not accustomed to it, and we have largely forgotten how to build the technology that would enable us to live in such a world, in the short time that would be available to do so.

[bgill]

Remember before 9/11, power plant sub stations had cyclone fencing. After 9/11, they built walls around them. Uh, hellooo, walls make is easier to slip in and do harm without anyone seeing them.

[plain talk]

If you accept the best case scenario of EMP doubters its still unconscionable not to spend the relative chump change necessary to harden vital infrastructure.

I agree. we should harden our power infrastructure and have more critical parts on stock.

[af_vet_1981]

Puerto Rico is a good example of having a *partial* destruction of the grid. They, overall, are doing pretty well.

That is because there is a friendly power with huge resources to help them.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

If the government won’t harden itself, then toughsky shitsky for them.

[Blood of Tyrants]

An EMP would disrupt the electrical grid for a diameter of several hundred miles. Certainly not the whole country.

[vetvetdoug]

They just have to get close to Memphis or St. Louis and the knee grows will destroy the cities by themselves in three days or less.

[PraiseTheLord]

Someone mentioned Norks have 2 satellites up there.

This has been said on FR before, and more than I recall:

One of the Nork’s satellites is in orbit north-south over us in the orbit necessary to EMP us. *fact*

Then there is something else necessary to make it happen, which would work if in Mehico, and we can assume they would have no problem doing that.

[ JMHO seems we know the Norks are friends w Iran, and if the Norks are not smart enough to do this themselves, their friend Iran would be of help. ]

{To repeat someone else, if you don’t believe everyone would die, sooner or later, you haven’t read THE BOOK —
which will tell you about all the things you haven’t thought of yet.}

[LucyT]

Tracking NK:

https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=41332

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=39026

[Taxman]

fwdude has been reading your books, Travis!

[RinaseaofDs]

Operation Fishbowl.

[RinaseaofDs]

The sun has done it: The Carrington event of 1859.

[RinaseaofDs]

That law has to do with static electric discharge through an atmospheric dielectric. EMP is different. Think of snow, lots of snow, being shaken off a roof suddenly, pummeling what walks beneath the eaves.

[Cvengr]

An EMP attack will not kill one cow.

An EMP attack on a bovine flatulance monitoring system will not be a pretty sight. <8^0

[TheNext]

EMP & the MATHEMATICS of EXPONENTS

re: TheNext

Mathematical Scaling = Addition >> Multiplication >> Exponential

Add: 10+10+10+10+10+10+10+10+10+10=100
Mult: 10x10=100. 10x100=1,000. 100x100=10,000.
Exp: 1=1E0. 10=1E1. 100=1E2. 0,1,2 is Additive.

Conventional EM wave declines EXPONENTIAL.
Nuclear “begins Exponential” therefore is ADDITIVE not exponential.

EMP Conventional declines EXPONENTIAL
EMP Nuclear declines ADDITIVE (or MULTIPLICATIVE) not EXPONENTIAL

Conventional EMP declines QUICKLY.
Nuclear EMP declines SLOWLY.

North Korea is believed to have two Nuke EMPs orbiting across the USA.
Likely, you are screwed. Your Pols have done NOTHING to protect your electrical grid. Congress (Dems) made you unsafe to rule you.

[Cvengr]

Adverbs are our friends.

Our arguments are simplified by using Bohl fcns.

[TheNext]

EMP is like out running a bear. You only have to out run your neighbors. :-)

A few days, maybe ...