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Congress warned North Korean EMP attack would kill '90% of all Americans'
The Washington Examiner ^ | Oct 12, 2017 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 10/12/2017 3:57:51 PM PDT by 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."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; bedard; electromagneticpulse; emp; grid; nk; nkemp; nknukes; nkoutofcontrol; third100days; trumpasia; trumpnatlsecurity; whataload
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To: Sasparilla

>>We saw a fistfight at a gas line in a town of 1,200 people during a gas “shortage” on Y2K day. No place is immune.

I finally added some body armor to my gun collection after Irma. Too many impatient people with no value for human life.


81 posted on 10/12/2017 5:24:40 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: central_va

Ridiculous. You can’t possible believe that?


How would you avoid those level of casualties?

No agriculture. No communications. No production of petroleum products. No Coal. No traffic on the highways. No rail traffic.

That is what no electricity and no communications means.

One season without significant agriculture, and 90% of the people die. It is that simple.

How do you avoid it? 60% of people live in big cities. How do you get them to the fields where they will have to plant and harvest food to make it through the winter, without transport and communication?

Having electricity and communications down over most of the U.S. for a year is very unlikely, but I do not see how you avoid the consequences if that were to happen.


82 posted on 10/12/2017 5:29:51 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: bitt

What a pile of BS. Are these the same 50 IQ apes who predicted that the world would end if Saddam set fire to the oilfields of Kuwait back in 1991?


83 posted on 10/12/2017 5:32:24 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: central_va

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


Yes, and they had the skills and infrastructure to do it. Most people lived on small farms and knew that technology backwards and forwards.

Great great grandparents for me would be 1880’s. The population in 1880 was 50 million. You have to kill off 85% of the U.S. population, just to reach that level.

I think we are much tougher than the fear-mongering novels imply. But, given their proposed level of destruction of the grid and communications, a 90% drop is believable.


84 posted on 10/12/2017 5:35:37 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: bitt

That’s fictional garbage. I’ve had the necessary training and education to know better.

You should concern yourselves with the fact that any EMP device headed our way will precede large nuclear weapons exchanges that will, in fact, destroy all who are unprepared to avoid eating fallout. The sure way for that to happen is to continue pushing our leaders to recede from the bully nations and allow their smaller lap dog neighbors to continue their ongoing nuclear weapons buildups.

Now is the best time to terminate the nuclear weapons programs of the two smaller rogue nations. If we don’t do so, those nations will continue to build up and inevitably launch against us with no provocation. That is the purpose of those two nations: to make way for two larger nations to follow through with much larger nuclear strikes against us.

EMP strikes will not destroy all electronic appliances or vehicles in the U.S.A. EMP strikes will not shut down power grids for any great length of time, if the associated power companies have enough transformers and other needed hardware ready to install.

And end the pushes of homeowners’ associations and other thieving entities trying to outlaw single family PV solar electric plants. Such greed, envy, ignorance and foolishness works against our readiness as a nation.


85 posted on 10/12/2017 5:37:19 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: bitt
Congress warned North Korean EMP attack would kill '90% of all Americans'


86 posted on 10/12/2017 5:42:54 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: DCBryan1

That’s my new favorite.


87 posted on 10/12/2017 5:43:54 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: bitt

Repeat a lie often enough...


88 posted on 10/12/2017 5:46:37 PM PDT by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: a fool in paradise

“Including 90% of the State Department, EPA, et al?”

hehe


89 posted on 10/12/2017 5:47:11 PM PDT by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: bitt

http://www.futurescience.com/emp.html


90 posted on 10/12/2017 5:51:50 PM PDT by Godzilla ( I just love the smell of COVFEFE in the morning . . . . .)
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To: bitt

Where is the “No this crap again, guy.”


91 posted on 10/12/2017 5:55:49 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: Bryanw92

...I finally added some body armor to my gun collection after Irma. Too many impatient people with no value for human life...

One savvy body armor manufacturer named it’s product “Infidel Body Armor” to prevent/ deter one particular group from putting it on.


92 posted on 10/12/2017 5:55:55 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: CJ Wolf

And the sun is 90 million miles away.


93 posted on 10/12/2017 5:56:40 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: marktwain

90%? That is preposterous.


94 posted on 10/12/2017 5:58:11 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: marktwain

What do you mean no agriculture? An EMP attack will not kill one cow.


95 posted on 10/12/2017 5:59:28 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Sasparilla

>>One savvy body armor manufacturer named it’s product “Infidel Body Armor” to prevent/ deter one particular group from putting it on.

“May contain pork products”??


96 posted on 10/12/2017 6:00:28 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: blueunicorn6

But she’s on my bucket list too.


97 posted on 10/12/2017 6:00:48 PM PDT by mcshot (Prepare for the new meaning of "riding shotgun".)
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To: Godzilla

” . . . the electromagnetic pulse turned all the one and zeros into plain old zeros . . .”


98 posted on 10/12/2017 6:02:47 PM PDT by bitt (The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literal)
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To: mcshot

She’s mine, so just forget it!

You take that bucket of yours and fill it with cold water and pour it over yourself and just forget about her!

If I wasn’t married and if she wasn’t married, well, she’d probably just walk past me without noticing me, but that doesn’t mean she needs to notice you!


99 posted on 10/12/2017 6:12:10 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6
I think the way to solve this is for Marie Osmond to meet me in Yellowstone Park for a big make out session. At least I’ll go happy.

This is an unusually clever way to turn your screen name into a double entendre.

100 posted on 10/12/2017 6:15:07 PM PDT by pilipo (We are not free.)
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