If you want to cry after WannaCry ransomware attacked FedEx in the United States, hospitals in Britain, and telecommunications networks in Spain last Friday, you’ll want to bawl when North Korea hits the U.S. with an electromagnetic pulse (EMP). Let’s not go there.
Congressional reports and most security experts agree that America’s adversaries—from developed nations like China and Russia to dictatorships like Iran and North Korea—prefer to target our country with a triple threat combination of cyberattacks, physical damage and EMP. And EMP is the greatest threat of the three.
A unique menace in that it can occur naturally (via a geomagnetic storm) or by man (via the high-altitude detonation of a nuclear weapon), EMP is a rapid acceleration of particles that creates a high-power burst of electromagnetic energy.
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Electromagnetic pulse attack on Hawaii would devastate the state
On July 9, 1962, Hawaii was hit by a massive electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, which within minutes took down the state’s communications systems and traffic lights — virtually everything that ran on electricity.
The EMP wasn’t an attack by a foreign government; rather the U.S. government had set off a 1.4-megaton nuclear warhead at a height of 248 miles above Johnston Atoll in an operation the military named “Starfish Prime.” The test caused radio disruptions in Hawaii, California, and Alaska, and knocked out six satellites above the Pacific.
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Is the US prepared for a nuclear EMP to shut down New York City?
Since Sept. 11, 2001, analysts have been increasingly concerned terrorists might steal, buy, build, or be given a nuclear weapon—and the War on Terrorism would become a nuclear war. The Department of Homeland Security’s National Planning Scenario #1 is detonation of a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon, as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb, in a location such as New York City or Washington, D.C.
Many experts warn an act of nuclear terrorism is not a question of if, but when.
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Hopefully Trump will harden our electric grid, because if he doesn’t do it, the idiots in Congress and future Presidents will do nothing until it is too late!
no one seems to remember that North Korea Has a supposedly dead satellite in orbit that passes over the US three times a day What if it is not dead but just waiting for orders?
IMO they have been talking about ‘hardening our grid’ for years, but keep kckinng it further and further down the road. At this rate, i fear by the time they decide to do something to PROTECT our grid, it will be to late.. SO I, like you, HOPES to hell that Don pushes through a bill (and funding) then gets the people to actually get to work on doing just that..
And a country boy can survive…
Along with all the disaster preppers out there.
BUT can you imagine all the teens and young adults who will be suddenly without their cell phones, their ever precious twitter\farcebook etc? I wonder how many of those will just go catatonic from panic at their inability to ‘connect’ to friends etc..
The EMP threat has been with us since 1962. This is not a problem for President Trump. It was the problem for the Public Utility Commissions in each state to take care of. They have been refusing to let the power companies obtain the money to harden the power grid. Perhaps this is why the federal government is buying up survival food so they can feed us when this finally happens. Write you PUC about their failure to recognize and help stop this threat!
No electricity except what my 1,000 watt emergency generator can produce. Energy rationing could be tough!
I don’t care what ANYBODY says, the threat of EMP attack is one very scary issue. There are very few hardened sites in America which would withstand such an attack. An EMP attack is 1000 times worse than nuclear attack. And the little fat guy in Pyongyang is just stupid enough to try it.
And with so many families these days, NOT thinking ahead and keeping stocks of spare food, water etc, if we DID have a massive EMP that just us down for weeks on end, can you imagine the sheer amount of rioting and other stuff going on??