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This sounds like total BS. The Chinese and Russians always brag up their weapons but in the end they hardly ever work as well as advertised. This sounds like another setup against Trump, something like, See Trump cant protect the US from the Chinese only a fellow communist like Joe Biden in the White House can protect us. Don’t fall for this obvious fake news psyop bullshit.

[This sounds like total BS. The Chinese and Russians always brag up their weapons but in the end they hardly ever work as well as advertised. This sounds like another setup against Trump, something like, See Trump cant protect the US from the Chinese only a fellow communist like Joe Biden in the White House can protect us. Don’t fall for this obvious fake news psyop bullshit.]

Even if it works, what country is going to fire a nuke against the US, given that it has a robust second strike capability? The very detection of the US-targeted ICBM launch trajectory from Chinese bases should result in a saturation counterforce and countervalue nuclear strike against China. At the end of which the major Chinese cities and military bases should be in smoking ruins. Which is why China’s leader won’t take that step. It’s also why I see any conflict with China to be restricted, like the Korean War, to (1) targets within the territory being fought over and (2) remain conventional. Because anything else would be catastrophic for both countries, unless one or the other managed to wipe out the other side’s nukes without being nuked itself.

I sat in a fascinating briefing about two years ago given by an actual nuclear scientist who was one of the team members who built the first EMP weapon.

High points:

1) they’re very hard to build
2) it takes a hell of a lot of atmospheric detonation data to even begin work on such a weapon
3) the Chinese and probably the Russians don’t have the necessary data and would need to conduct many more live tests
4) our power grid isn’t nearly as fragile as most think it is with local power distribution being the most vulnerable but fairly easily replaced if needed
5) the range of the effect diminishes rapidly and requires a pretty sizable warhead to get anything going that could effect even part of a state
6) the odds of anything harming us nationwide is almost zero

I went into it with “One Second After” on my mind. I came out of it not worried about EMP attacks; regular nuclear strikes are still by far the preferred method of mass annihilation.