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Well… It is…Thank you Michael. I will order the books. This all makes the world seem so fragile.
Well… It is…Thank you Michael. I will order the books. This all makes the world seem so fragile.
When I was in the Army after we received our final launch orders our SOP was to disconnect our radios from their antennas to protect them from the EMP generated from our own missile.
I would have to agree. Maybe back it up with activity on the ground, with a team of people setting forest fires. If your team had extra gas from before the EMP, a small group of people can light up several states in a big hurry. My husband (military historian grad student) and I have discussed this several times since 9/11, and heard a similiar scenerio mentioned a few years back with the California fires.In my opinion, EMP is the perfect terrorist weapon.
I think you may be underestimating the resilince and adaptability of the Amreican population. Sure we have become dependant on electricity and other modern conveniences. But we weren’t always dependant upon these and we can adapt to survive for period of time until we can get them back up and running.That misses the point. The idea is to EMP the country and let it destroy itself with the ensuing anarchy and total collapse. You don’t have to directly kill a single soul, but you would indirectly kill millions.
A couple of days without power is not a big deal. But with an EMP, you’re talking about weeks, if not months. Anything with an electrical circuit would have to be replaced. Cars, computers, phones, watches, calculators, radios, coffee makers, etc.First, as a few posters have already mentioned or alluded to, neither N. Korea nor Iran have missiles with the range, much less reliabilty, to reach the US (though N. Korea is far closer to this than Iran, as well as being geographically closer).
Second, are you saying that an EMP would permanently cripple all electrical power? I don’t see why this would be so. I also would like to point out that when the blackout hit NYC, along with a good chunk of the E. Coast, in August 03, we did just fine. Virtually no looting, vandalism, anarchy. It was kind of nice, actually, like a snow day in August. I spent the Friday at the park enjoying the break from work.
In my opinion, fear mongering about EMPs is just an attempt to drum up money for expensive toys like the missle defense shield. Better to focus on more likley threats such as dirty bombs being smuggled in and detonated in crowded areas. A missile shield does nothing to defend against this.
No email, No cell phone, No blackberry…HMMMMM, sounds like heaven to me.A couple of days without power is not a big deal. But with an EMP, you’re talking about weeks, if not months. Anything with an electrical circuit would have to be replaced. Cars, computers, phones, watches, calculators, radios, coffee makers, etc.
Yes, but…maybe someone here would like to comment on this.Me, too, Benadam. This is horrific and nightmarish news…
I think nothing’s happened in 4 years because they’re still planning. Remember that the 1st WTC attack was in 93 (I think that’s the right date?). Still, the scope in magnitude between 9/11 and this apocalyptic EMP scenario is quite vast. I think the EMP is unrealistic. What’s not is something like 9/11 (on the high end of the terror spectrum), or something smaller but no less horrific, like Madrid. Also, we should be doing much more to beef up port security and inspections. Actually, there’s a lot of good suggestions out there for what should be done (much of Richard Clark’s suggestions come to mind, for instance).Yes, but…maybe someone here would like to comment on this.
9/11 was a devastaing attack on America. It shook us to the core and certainly awoken us to the reality of our vulnerability.
However, having said that, there has not been an attack remotely of that magnitude in the nearly 4 years since. Is this so because the terrorists discovered an achilles heel and utilized it to suit thier goal?
When you think about it from the perspective of a Monday morning quarterback it didn’t take rocket science to pull off what they did. All it took were some evil minds and our complacency. Yet the fact that it hasn’t happened again leads me to believe that possibly, they shot thier single bullet. The fact that it hasn’t happened again could be either, they are not as interested in accomplishing another attack as much we believe they are (although I doubt this) or, they simply are much more impotent then we give them credit for.
Are they even remotely at teh level of sophistication to pull off something like this thread suggests, or are we giving a bunch of thugs more scientific credit then they accualy posses?
I’m not for a minute suggesting we fall back into complacency, I’m suggesting that threads like these maybe scaring people beyond the capacity of these modern day terroists. Emphasis on maybe.