New Congress warning on nuclear EMP threat
U.S. vulnerable to attack by terrorists
that could cripple nation, kill millions
June 20, 2005
WASHINGTON – Joining Sen. John Kyl, who earlier warned of how an
electromagnetic pulse attack threatens U.S. survival, Rep. Roscoe
Bartlett, chairman of the House Projection Forces Subcommittee, says
an EMP attack – even by an underfunded, unsophisticated terrorist
group – has the potential to cripple U.S. society and kill millions.
"Today we are very much concerned ... about asymmetric weapons,"
Bartlett told his colleagues. "We are a big, powerful country. Nobody
can contend with us shoulder-to-shoulder, face-to-face. So all of our
potential adversaries are looking for what we refer to as asymmetric
weapons. That is a weapon that overcomes our superior capabilities.
There is no asymmetric weapon that has anywhere near the potential of
EMP."
EMP attacks are generated when a nuclear weapon is detonated at
altitudes above a few dozen kilometers above the Earth's surface. The
explosion, of even a small nuclear warhead, would produce a set of
electromagnetic pulses that interact with the Earth's atmosphere and
the Earth's magnetic field.
Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin first reported the shocking findings of the
U.S. EMP commission that rogue nations, such as Iran and North Korea,
have the capability of launching an undetected, catastrophic EMP
attack on the U.S. – and are actively developing plans.
"These electromagnetic pulses propagate from the burst point of the
nuclear weapon to the line of sight on the Earth's horizon,
potentially covering a vast geographic region in doing so
simultaneously, moreover, at the speed of light," said Dr. Lowell
Wood, acting chairman of the commission appo9inted by Congress to
study the threat. "For example, a nuclear weapon detonated at an
altitude of 400 kilometers over the central United States would cover,
with its primary electromagnetic pulse, the entire continent of the
United States and parts of Canada and Mexico."
The commission, in its work over a period of several years, found that
EMP is one of a small number of threats that has the potential to hold
American society seriously at risk and that might also result in the
defeat of U.S. military forces.
"The electromagnetic field pulses produced by weapons designed and
deployed with the intent to produce EMP have a high likelihood of
damaging electrical power systems, electronics and information systems
upon which any reasonably advanced society, most specifically
including our own, depend vitally," Wood said. "Their effects on
systems and infrastructures dependent on electricity and electronics
could be sufficiently ruinous as to qualify as catastrophic to the
American nation."
The commission concluded in its report to Congress earlier this year:
"EMP is one of a small number of threats that may hold at risk the
continued existence of today's U.S. civil society.''
"The number of U.S. adversaries capable of EMP attack is greater than
during the Cold War," said Bartlett. "We may look back with some
fondness on the Cold War. We then had only one potential adversary. We
knew him quite well."
Bartlett pointed out that Iran has tested launching of a Scud missile
from a surface vessel, "a launch mode that could support a national or
transnational EMP attack against the United States."
"Iran has conducted tests with its Shahab-3 missile that have been
described as failures by the Western media because the missiles did
not complete their ballistic trajectories, but were deliberately
exploded at high altitude," he said. "This, of course, would be
exactly what you would want to do if you were going to use an EMP
weapon. Iran described these tests as successful. We said they were a
failure because they blew up in flight. They described them as
successful. Of course, they would be, if Iran's intent was practicing
for an EMP attack."
Bartlett added: "Potential adversaries are aware of the EMP's
strategic attack option. Ninety-nine percent of Americans may not know
very much about EMP, but I will assure you ... that 100 percent of our
potential enemies know all about EMP. I think that the American people
need to know about EMP because they need to demand that their
government do the prudent thing so that we will be less and less
susceptible, less and less at risk to an EMP attack year by year. The
threat is not adequately addressed in U.S. national and homeland
security programs. Not only is it not adequately addressed; it is
usually ignored, not even mentioned, and it certainly needs to be
considered."
"Terrorists could steal, purchase, or be provided a nuclear weapon and
perform an EMP attack against the United States simply by launching a
primitive Scud missile off a freighter near our shores," he said. "We
do not need to be thinking about missiles coming over the pole. There
are thousands of ships out there, particularly in the North Atlantic
shipping lanes, and any one of them could have a Scud missile on
board. If you put a canvas over it, we cannot see through the thinnest
canvas. We would not know whether it was bailed hay or bananas or a
Scud launcher. You cannot see through any cover on ship. Scud missiles
can be purchased on the world market today for less than $100,000.
Al-Qaida is estimated to own about 80 freighters, so all they need,
.... is $100,000, which I am sure they can get, for the missile and a
crude nuclear weapon."
Bartlett revealed Russian, Chinese, and Pakistani scientists are
working in North Korea and could enable that country to develop an EMP
weapon in the near future.
The congressman also raised the question of retaliation – and how an
EMP sneak attack could not only go undetected, but that it might be
impossible to find out who was responsible after the fact.
"If it were launched from the ocean, we would not know who launched
it," he said. "So against whom would we retaliate? Even if we knew who
launched it ...if all they have done is to disable our computers, do
we respond in kind, or do you incinerate their grandmothers and their
babies? This would be a really tough call. Responding in kind might do
very little good. There is no other country in the world that has
anything like our sophistication in electronic equipment, and no other
country in the world is so dependent as we are on our national
infrastructure."
Yet, over time, an EMP attack would likely result in much more death
than a nuclear attack on a major city, he said.
"Can you imagine our country ...with 285 million people, no
electricity, and there will be no electricity, no transportation, no
communication?" he asked. "The only way you can go anywhere is to
walk, and the only person you can talk to is the person next to you.
What would we do? How many of our people might not survive the
transition from that situation to where you had established a sort of
infrastructure that could support civil society as we know it today."
An EMP attack is far more dangerous to the West than it is to other
less technologically developed countries, he said.
Russian officers have told U.S. officials, Bartlett said, that the
knowledge and technology to develop what they called super-EMP weapons
had been transferred to North Korea and that the rogue state could
probably develop these weapons in the near future, within a few years.
EMP, he warned, can cause catastrophic damage to the nation by
destroying the electric power infrastructure, causing cascading
failures in the infrastructure for everything: telecommunications,
energy, transportation, finance, food, and water.
Bartlett is urging a major national commitment to preparing for such
an attack, which, he said, would not be nearly as costly as might be
expected.
"Every new water system we put in, every new sewage system we put in,
every new power line we run, every new distribution system we put in
needs to be hardened," he explained. "It is not all that expensive to
do. You just need to do it."
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<TheSilver@Bullet.com> wrote in message
news:1119274858.bb78323f141f7c0a8a9f2ec4937fb0b7@teranews...
New Congress warning on nuclear EMP threat
U.S. vulnerable to attack by terrorists
that could cripple nation, kill millions
June 20, 2005
WASHINGTON - Joining Sen. John Kyl, who earlier warned of how an
electromagnetic pulse attack threatens U.S. survival, Rep. Roscoe
Bartlett, chairman of the House Projection Forces Subcommittee, says
an EMP attack - even by an underfunded, unsophisticated terrorist
group - has the potential to cripple U.S. society and kill millions.
Oh for *****'s sake. If your enemies have the capability to loft megaton
range nuclear warheads into the stratosphere above your nation,then:
1) They sure as hell aren't "an underfunded, unsophisticated terrorist
group"
2) EMP really is the least of your worries
Sounds like a bunch of know-nothing arseholes trying to make names (and
budgts) for themselves, like they did over the "Dirty Bomb" phantom...
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20 Jun 2005 04:23:36 PM |
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tw wrote:
<TheSilver@Bullet.com> wrote in message
news:1119274858.bb78323f141f7c0a8a9f2ec4937fb0b7@teranews...
New Congress warning on nuclear EMP threat
U.S. vulnerable to attack by terrorists
that could cripple nation, kill millions
June 20, 2005
WASHINGTON - Joining Sen. John Kyl, who earlier warned of how an
electromagnetic pulse attack threatens U.S. survival, Rep. Roscoe
Bartlett, chairman of the House Projection Forces Subcommittee, says
an EMP attack - even by an underfunded, unsophisticated terrorist
group - has the potential to cripple U.S. society and kill millions.
Oh for *****'s sake. If your enemies have the capability to loft megaton
range nuclear warheads into the stratosphere above your nation,then:
Y'know what? They don't need to "loft" them, they just need to get them
into a plane that can fly high enough and far enough into US airspace to
do their dirty work. (Just occurred to me as I was responding to an
erroneous statement in the article).
Woods
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21 Jun 2005 02:27:48 AM |
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"Woodswun" <woodswun@tepidmail.com> wrote in message
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tw wrote:
<TheSilver@Bullet.com> wrote in message
news:1119274858.bb78323f141f7c0a8a9f2ec4937fb0b7@teranews...
New Congress warning on nuclear EMP threat
U.S. vulnerable to attack by terrorists
that could cripple nation, kill millions
June 20, 2005
WASHINGTON - Joining Sen. John Kyl, who earlier warned of how an
electromagnetic pulse attack threatens U.S. survival, Rep. Roscoe
Bartlett, chairman of the House Projection Forces Subcommittee, says
an EMP attack - even by an underfunded, unsophisticated terrorist
group - has the potential to cripple U.S. society and kill millions.
Oh for *****'s sake. If your enemies have the capability to loft megaton
range nuclear warheads into the stratosphere above your nation,then:
Y'know what? They don't need to "loft" them, they just need to get them
into a plane that can fly high enough
Hmm.. there's your problem straight away - if yuor enemies have the R&D and
manufacturing capability to construct an aircraft that can :
1) Fly at an altitude of 20 miles or so (that's over 100,000 feet - most
civilian air traffic has trouble getting to 40,000)
2) Can do so undetected by radar
Then the fact that they have a megaton range warhead on board is fairly far
down your list of worries!
and far enough into US airspace to
do their dirty work. (Just occurred to me as I was responding to an
erroneous statement in the article).
The trouble (or rather the good thing) is that in order to "just" do those
things, you'd need to have some VERY hi-tech kit indeed. The US has had an
integrated air defense system for years and years - they'd certainly spot
someone motoring in at 100,000 feet or so and it would raise more than a few
"what the hell is that?" flags - I doubt they'd get much past the Canary
Islands (assuming they were attacking from the east) before being shot
down..
Woods
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21 Jun 2005 04:41:22 PM |
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tw wrote:
"Woodswun" <woodswun@tepidmail.com> wrote in message
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tw wrote:
<TheSilver@Bullet.com> wrote in message
news:1119274858.bb78323f141f7c0a8a9f2ec4937fb0b7@teranews...
New Congress warning on nuclear EMP threat
U.S. vulnerable to attack by terrorists
that could cripple nation, kill millions
June 20, 2005
WASHINGTON - Joining Sen. John Kyl, who earlier warned of how an
electromagnetic pulse attack threatens U.S. survival, Rep. Roscoe
Bartlett, chairman of the House Projection Forces Subcommittee, says
an EMP attack - even by an underfunded, unsophisticated terrorist
group - has the potential to cripple U.S. society and kill millions.
Oh for *****'s sake. If your enemies have the capability to loft megaton
range nuclear warheads into the stratosphere above your nation,then:
Y'know what? They don't need to "loft" them, they just need to get them
into a plane that can fly high enough
Hmm.. there's your problem straight away - if yuor enemies have the R&D and
manufacturing capability to construct an aircraft that can :
1) Fly at an altitude of 20 miles or so (that's over 100,000 feet - most
civilian air traffic has trouble getting to 40,000)
Does it have to be that high up to emit an EMP? I think any nuclear
detonation would do so, it's just the range would be lessened.
2) Can do so undetected by radar
You don't need to be undetected by radar if you're a regular pilot who's
taken off within the US, has filed a flight plan, and maintains
communication with air traffic controllers. Nobody would suspect
anything was amiss until the nuke was detonated.
Then the fact that they have a megaton range warhead on board is fairly far
down your list of worries!
I'm not entirely convinced, but I do think it unlikely that they'd be
able to get a nuclear weapon at all.
and far enough into US airspace to
do their dirty work. (Just occurred to me as I was responding to an
erroneous statement in the article).
The trouble (or rather the good thing) is that in order to "just" do those
things, you'd need to have some VERY hi-tech kit indeed. The US has had an
integrated air defense system for years and years - they'd certainly spot
someone motoring in at 100,000 feet or so and it would raise more than a few
"what the hell is that?" flags - I doubt they'd get much past the Canary
Islands (assuming they were attacking from the east) before being shot
down..
Again, there are very simple ways around having to get past our air
defense system. If you're a legitimate private pilot, you're already in!
Woods
Woods
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22 Jun 2005 03:04:07 AM |
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"Woodswun" <woodswun@tepidmail.com> wrote in message
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tw wrote:
"Woodswun" <woodswun@tepidmail.com> wrote in message
news:stGte.82473$HT1.34112@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
tw wrote:
<TheSilver@Bullet.com> wrote in message
news:1119274858.bb78323f141f7c0a8a9f2ec4937fb0b7@teranews...
New Congress warning on nuclear EMP threat
U.S. vulnerable to attack by terrorists
that could cripple nation, kill millions
June 20, 2005
WASHINGTON - Joining Sen. John Kyl, who earlier warned of how an
electromagnetic pulse attack threatens U.S. survival, Rep. Roscoe
Bartlett, chairman of the House Projection Forces Subcommittee, says
an EMP attack - even by an underfunded, unsophisticated terrorist
group - has the potential to cripple U.S. society and kill millions.
Oh for *****'s sake. If your enemies have the capability to loft megaton
range nuclear warheads into the stratosphere above your nation,then:
Y'know what? They don't need to "loft" them, they just need to get them
into a plane that can fly high enough
Hmm.. there's your problem straight away - if yuor enemies have the R&D
and
manufacturing capability to construct an aircraft that can :
1) Fly at an altitude of 20 miles or so (that's over 100,000 feet - most
civilian air traffic has trouble getting to 40,000)
Does it have to be that high up to emit an EMP?
That's true, any nuclear explosion (possibly ANY explosion) will generate an
EMP, but the effects are pretty localised and minimal unless you can do it
above the troposphere.
I think any nuclear
detonation would do so, it's just the range would be lessened.
Range AND effect. Again, if you were Abdul Ben Terrorist, what woudl be the
best use of your nuclear weapon? Stick it in a lorry in downtown Manhattan
and get millions of casualties or stick it in a plane and break a few TVs?
2) Can do so undetected by radar
You don't need to be undetected by radar if you're a regular pilot who's
taken off within the US, has filed a flight plan, and maintains
communication with air traffic controllers. Nobody would suspect
anything was amiss until the nuke was detonated.
...unless you were at 100,000 feet or so!
Then the fact that they have a megaton range warhead on board is fairly
far
down your list of worries!
I'm not entirely convinced, but I do think it unlikely that they'd be
able to get a nuclear weapon at all.
Fair enough - but put yourself in the imaginary terrorists posession - you
managed to get a couple of rusty ex-russian warheads (or low-tech
Pakistani/Indian/Iranian/whatever) for your grand gesture - which is the
best way of employing them for the maximum terror effect? Keep it simple,
stick it on a truck with a volunteer to hold the red and black wires
together and take out a huge chunk of a major city and kill/injure/panic
millions or stick it in a plane, make a pretty light show at 20,000 feet and
fry a few square miles of electrical equipment?
and far enough into US airspace to
do their dirty work. (Just occurred to me as I was responding to an
erroneous statement in the article).
The trouble (or rather the good thing) is that in order to "just" do
those
things, you'd need to have some VERY hi-tech kit indeed. The US has had
an
integrated air defense system for years and years - they'd certainly
spot
someone motoring in at 100,000 feet or so and it would raise more than a
few
"what the hell is that?" flags - I doubt they'd get much past the Canary
Islands (assuming they were attacking from the east) before being shot
down..
Again, there are very simple ways around having to get past our air
defense system.
Not at 100,000 feet or so there aren't! As I said, if your ebemy has the
capability to carry out an EMP attack, then the EMP attack is the least of
your worries...
If you're a legitimate private pilot, you're already in!
Woods
Woods
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22 Jun 2005 04:23:47 PM |
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tw wrote:
"Woodswun" <woodswun@tepidmail.com> wrote in message
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tw wrote:
"Woodswun" <woodswun@tepidmail.com> wrote in message
news:stGte.82473$HT1.34112@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
tw wrote:
<TheSilver@Bullet.com> wrote in message
news:1119274858.bb78323f141f7c0a8a9f2ec4937fb0b7@teranews...
New Congress warning on nuclear EMP threat
U.S. vulnerable to attack by terrorists
that could cripple nation, kill millions
June 20, 2005
WASHINGTON - Joining Sen. John Kyl, who earlier warned of how an
electromagnetic pulse attack threatens U.S. survival, Rep. Roscoe
Bartlett, chairman of the House Projection Forces Subcommittee, says
an EMP attack - even by an underfunded, unsophisticated terrorist
group - has the potential to cripple U.S. society and kill millions.
Oh for *****'s sake. If your enemies have the capability to loft megaton
range nuclear warheads into the stratosphere above your nation,then:
Y'know what? They don't need to "loft" them, they just need to get them
into a plane that can fly high enough
Hmm.. there's your problem straight away - if yuor enemies have the R&D
and
manufacturing capability to construct an aircraft that can :
1) Fly at an altitude of 20 miles or so (that's over 100,000 feet - most
civilian air traffic has trouble getting to 40,000)
Does it have to be that high up to emit an EMP?
That's true, any nuclear explosion (possibly ANY explosion) will generate an
EMP, but the effects are pretty localised and minimal unless you can do it
above the troposphere.
I think any nuclear
detonation would do so, it's just the range would be lessened.
Range AND effect. Again, if you were Abdul Ben Terrorist, what woudl be the
best use of your nuclear weapon? Stick it in a lorry in downtown Manhattan
and get millions of casualties or stick it in a plane and break a few TVs?
2) Can do so undetected by radar
You don't need to be undetected by radar if you're a regular pilot who's
taken off within the US, has filed a flight plan, and maintains
communication with air traffic controllers. Nobody would suspect
anything was amiss until the nuke was detonated.
...unless you were at 100,000 feet or so!
Then the fact that they have a megaton range warhead on board is fairly
far
down your list of worries!
I'm not entirely convinced, but I do think it unlikely that they'd be
able to get a nuclear weapon at all.
Fair enough - but put yourself in the imaginary terrorists posession - you
managed to get a couple of rusty ex-russian warheads (or low-tech
Pakistani/Indian/Iranian/whatever) for your grand gesture - which is the
best way of employing them for the maximum terror effect? Keep it simple,
stick it on a truck with a volunteer to hold the red and black wires
together and take out a huge chunk of a major city and kill/injure/panic
millions or stick it in a plane, make a pretty light show at 20,000 feet and
fry a few square miles of electrical equipment?
Nah, I wouldn't even bother trying to use them for an EMP even if I had
a means to deliver a blast at 100,000 feet. I'd go for a blast within a
large, metropolitcan area. That could be coupled with an attack on some
major electric lines that go from, say, Canada to NYC. So, you'd have a
major event with early reports, then the power would cut out, breaking
most communications just after people have found out about the event.
That's the way terrorists work - make a big impact to scare people.
and far enough into US airspace to
do their dirty work. (Just occurred to me as I was responding to an
erroneous statement in the article).
The trouble (or rather the good thing) is that in order to "just" do
those
things, you'd need to have some VERY hi-tech kit indeed. The US has had
an
integrated air defense system for years and years - they'd certainly
spot
someone motoring in at 100,000 feet or so and it would raise more than a
few
"what the hell is that?" flags - I doubt they'd get much past the Canary
Islands (assuming they were attacking from the east) before being shot
down..
Again, there are very simple ways around having to get past our air
defense system.
Not at 100,000 feet or so there aren't! As I said, if your ebemy has the
capability to carry out an EMP attack, then the EMP attack is the least of
your worries...
True, but it does disrupt communications, maximizing the terror effect.
Woods
If you're a legitimate private pilot, you're already in!
Woods
Woods
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22 Jun 2005 12:00:41 PM |
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Woods wrote:
tw wrote:
<TheSilver@Bullet.com> wrote in message
news:1119274858.bb78323f141f7c0a8a9f2ec4937fb0b7@teranews...
New Congress warning on nuclear EMP threat
U.S. vulnerable to attack by terrorists
that could cripple nation, kill millions
June 20, 2005
WASHINGTON - Joining Sen. John Kyl, who earlier warned of how an
electromagnetic pulse attack threatens U.S. survival, Rep. Roscoe
Bartlett, chairman of the House Projection Forces Subcommittee, says
an EMP attack - even by an underfunded, unsophisticated terrorist
group - has the potential to cripple U.S. society and kill millions.
Oh for *****'s sake. If your enemies have the capability to loft megaton
range nuclear warheads into the stratosphere above your nation,then:
Y'know what? They don't need to "loft" them, they just need to get them
into a plane that can fly high enough and far enough into US airspace to
do their dirty work. (Just occurred to me as I was responding to an
erroneous statement in the article).
Woods
Yep, or they can be launched from any vessel at sea.
Tony
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23 Jun 2005 02:44:57 AM |
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<TheSilver@Bullet.com> wrote in message
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Woods wrote:
tw wrote:
<TheSilver@Bullet.com> wrote in message
news:1119274858.bb78323f141f7c0a8a9f2ec4937fb0b7@teranews...
New Congress warning on nuclear EMP threat
U.S. vulnerable to attack by terrorists
that could cripple nation, kill millions
June 20, 2005
WASHINGTON - Joining Sen. John Kyl, who earlier warned of how an
electromagnetic pulse attack threatens U.S. survival, Rep. Roscoe
Bartlett, chairman of the House Projection Forces Subcommittee, says
an EMP attack - even by an underfunded, unsophisticated terrorist
group - has the potential to cripple U.S. society and kill millions.
Oh for *****'s sake. If your enemies have the capability to loft megaton
range nuclear warheads into the stratosphere above your nation,then:
Y'know what? They don't need to "loft" them, they just need to get them
into a plane that can fly high enough and far enough into US airspace to
do their dirty work. (Just occurred to me as I was responding to an
erroneous statement in the article).
Woods
Yep, or they can be launched from any vessel at sea.
Unlikely. ..but even so would be an extreme waste of a powerful weapon that
would be much better employed by using it to redevelop Bayonne
Tony
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wrote:
New Congress warning on nuclear EMP threat
U.S. vulnerable to attack by terrorists
that could cripple nation, kill millions
June 20, 2005
WASHINGTON – Joining Sen. John Kyl, who earlier warned of how an
electromagnetic pulse attack threatens U.S. survival, Rep. Roscoe
Bartlett, chairman of the House Projection Forces Subcommittee, says
an EMP attack – even by an underfunded, unsophisticated terrorist
group – has the potential to cripple U.S. society and kill millions.
"Today we are very much concerned ... about asymmetric weapons,"
Bartlett told his colleagues. "We are a big, powerful country. Nobody
can contend with us shoulder-to-shoulder, face-to-face. So all of our
potential adversaries are looking for what we refer to as asymmetric
weapons. That is a weapon that overcomes our superior capabilities.
There is no asymmetric weapon that has anywhere near the potential of
EMP."
EMP attacks are generated when a nuclear weapon is detonated at
altitudes above a few dozen kilometers above the Earth's surface. The
explosion, of even a small nuclear warhead, would produce a set of
electromagnetic pulses that interact with the Earth's atmosphere and
the Earth's magnetic field.
One detonation = one EMP. (I'm assuming it's the writer who didn't quite
get it right). For multiple pulses, it would require multiple nuclear
detonations which, IMHO, is a highly unlikely scenario, mostly due to a
delivery problem. (Although, I suppose if they can get suicide pilots
to fly into the WTC, they can probably get suicide pilots to carry nukes
and detonate them onboard while flying ...)
Woods
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| User: "The Psychedelic Pope - Saint Isadore of Laytonville - Patron Saint of the Internet" |
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21 Jun 2005 01:20:53 AM |
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Damn it and I just got a faster Mac computer too.
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| User: "The Psychedelic Pope - Saint Isadore of Laytonville - Patron Saint of the Internet" |
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21 Jun 2005 11:02:12 AM |
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You could probably obtain the same result of an EMP
using the MWO with a powerful enough transmission
capability.
http://www.futuretechtoday.net/mwo/
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