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"[North Korea has achieved] a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke . . . which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP [electromagnetic pulse] attack, according to strategic goals."
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un

"All we have to do is launch one ballistic missile over your country and conduct an EMP attack and that would be the end of America."
Russian taunt

"It's very politically incorrect to be trying to raise awareness about EMP."
"Nine out of ten Americans could die from starvation, disease and societal collapse, if the blackout lasted a year."
Peter Pry, former staff member, American House Armed Services Committee

"[In Canada there] has never been a single attempt to introduce legislation to protect the [electrical] grid."
"The north is fully exposed."
Anthony Furey, author, Pulse Attack: The real story behind the secret weapon that can destroy North America

EMP Pulse attack -- SkilledSurvival.com

It is fairly well known in scientific circles, in government, throughout intelligence agencies that possession of nuclear weapons means that whoever has them and nurses malign and sinister scenarios of control and destruction could conceive of unleashing a nuclear device to demolish national infrastructure and in the process, destroy countless human lives.There are terrorist groups who have proven through their dedication to conducting atrocities of unimaginable depravity that they would suffer few qualms in unleashing such monumentally destructive devices.

We don't really think of states as prepared to unleash such grotesque means of vanquishing an enemy since most administrations that govern anywhere in the world understand very well that to mount such attacks is to invite return attacks and that whoever begins such a war will not necessarily end it. Aside from the fact that among many who come to governing power, if not all, certain constraints and restrains residing in the human psyche respecting a degree of universal respect for human life would come into focus.

And then there are nations such as North Korea or the Islamic Republic of Iran, both equally focused on the acquisition of the means to destroy other countries' capacity to endure such a massive attack as a feature of the pure unalloyed hatred they have for others in their paranoid minds, resentful of power and command held elsewhere, responding to their own inner urges to usurp command and power for themselves.

For those who may be squeamish about the potential of destroying tens of thousands of lives at one fell swoop, it can be accomplished through other means, by a different type of nuclear attack whereby populations would slowly succumb to death through the long-drawn-out and inevitable consequences of all their civilizing infrastructure upon which modern cities and states are dependent failing; their electrical grid and its connections to service deliveries, from potable water to food, health delivery to energy provisions.

A nuclear bomb detonated 400 km in the atmosphere over a populated area represents a deliberate plan for destruction and extermination. Gamma rays colliding with electrons create a physics dysfunction that immediately disables all electrical connections, from communications to transit, cutting off all electricity-driven mechanics including those operated through batteries or generators. That brief surge of energy in the atmosphere instantly and radically destroys electrical infrastructure.

Everything ... everything that we all rely upon to run and operate and manage daily life becomes void and inoperable. From a vehicle's electronic system to pumps for wells or gas stations, power for factories and supermarkets, refrigeration and computers as Supervising Control and Data Acquisition providing potable water, steering sewage and the distribution of natural gas, are finished, dead, utterly dysfunctional.

The resulting breakdown of all that is relied upon when widespread infrastructure damage occurs wreaks unspeakable horrors on a society struggling to cope with the wholly unexpected and the total annihilation of order, security and vital needs acquisition. The storage of food limps back to the Middle Ages, and spoilage and inaccessibility and shortages spell an utter nightmare along with dwindling clean water access.

There is, evidently, a solution of sorts in defence of the inevitability of this kind of descent into complete disaster. Apart from the hope and expectation that such a scenario would never develop there is the utility of redundancy; spare parts that could be instantly resourced, as well as the construction of special 'cages' to protect against EMP damages, set over vulnerable utilities systems.

Which would require an initial outlay of funding that might beggar the bottom lines of most countries' financial resourcefulness. And perhaps this is the reason that this is a seldom-discussed issue, albeit one that at some future date  may conceivably become an unfortunate reality, like some latter-day end-of-times.

VICE: First thing's first: Is an EMP a real weapon?
Sim Tack (military analyst, Stratror): It's not a work of fiction. It's an actual technology that exists. It's being played with in some capacity, and will potentially play a much greater role in future warfare. With the increasing importance of electronic circuits on the battlefield... There's only more and more reason to create weapons that specifically target networking ability and electronics dependence. 

Commercial jets will fall from the sky across North America. Nuclear power plants will go off-line. Hospitals will become death traps. Battles over food will be fought in the streets. And that's just day one. Welcome to the EMP nightmare. by Mark Lawrence, Copyright © SecretsofSurvival.com

Labels: Conflict, Nuclear Weapons

posted by Pieface @ Friday, September 22, 2017