EMP And Me
Yes, EMP (nuclear-generated electromagnetic pulse) is a threat especially if terrorists/terrorist states get their hands on a nuclear bomb. It only takes one. Iran could have that one too not that far in the future. Quoting from WND:
“The Defense Department with the strong support of Deputy Secretary Gordon England is pursuing how the federal government can reduce the EMP threat,” he said.
They’re actually taking this seriously.
In a forward to the report, Bartlett noted, “The EMP Commission found that terrorists could perform an EMP attack. A sophisticated intercontinental ballistic missile is not required to make an EMP attack. The EMP Commission found that a short- or medium-range missile, like a SCUD or Iran’s Shahab-3, launched off a freighter, could make an EMP attack on the United States. Iran has practiced such a launch-mode, firing a SCUD missile off a vessel in the Caspian Sea.
“A high-yield nuclear weapon is not necessary to perform an EMP attack that would destroy U.S. critical infrastructures. One of the EMP Commission’s key findings reported to the U.S. Congress is that: ‘Certain types of relatively low-yield nuclear weapons can be employed to generate potentially catastrophic EMP effects over wide geographic areas, and designs for variants of such weapons may have been illicitly trafficked for a quarter-century,’” Bartlett continued.
Critical infrastructure, oh stuff like computers, anything that runs on computers say cars, water, power, air-conditioning, everything from traffic lights to TV to the military’s high-tech weaponry. Stuff like that. Gone. Fried. Would definitely do a job on the economy not to mention my lifestyle. Oh, I could still open a can of cat food but once I ran out, cats would get very hungry. No way to get cat food either. Would be a major hassle. Not a good thing. Thankfully, our government is concerned. Maybe they’ll do something about it.
